Estimating the Frequency of Horizontal Gene Transfer Using Phylogenetic Models of Gene Gain and Loss

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 1843-1857

  Zamani Dahaj, Seyed Alireza ^a   Okasha, Mohamed ^a   Kosakowski, Jakub ^a   Higgs, Paul G ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Archaea; Bacterial genomes; Cyanobacteria; Horizontal gene transfer; Phylogenetics

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENE FREQUENCY; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INHERITANCE; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; ARCHAEAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PROCEDURES;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYANOBACTERIA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DELETION; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 85019145778     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/MOLBEV/MSW062     Document Type: Article

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