A natural barrier to lateral gene transfer from prokaryotes to eukaryotes revealed from genomes: The 70 % rule

BMC Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Ku, Chuan ^a   Martin, William F ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENETICS; GENOME; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PROKARYOTIC CELL;

EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME; PROKARYOTIC CELLS;

EID: 84995794392     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12915-016-0315-9     Document Type: Article

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