“Every gene is everywhere but the environment selects”: Global geolocalization of gene sharing in environmental samples through network analysis

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1388-1400

  Fondi, Marco ^a   Karkman, Antti ^b   Tamminen, Manu V ^c,d   Bosi, Emanuele ^a   Virta, Marko ^b   Fani, Renato ^a   Alm, Eric ^e   McInerney, James O ^f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d Department of Aquatic Ecology ^*  (Switzerland)

^e Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^f NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Biogeography; Horizontal gene transfer

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; GENE FLOW; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GEOGRAPHY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; GENE FLOW; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENETIC DETERMINISM; GENETIC SPECIATION; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MICROBIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA;

EID: 85015598926     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evw077     Document Type: Article

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