Mechanisms of gene flow in archaea

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 492-501

  Wagner, Alexander ^a   Whitaker, Rachel J ^b,c   Krause, David J ^d   Heilers, Jan Hendrik ^a   Van Wolferen, Marleen ^a   Van Der Does, Chris ^a   Albers, Sonja Verena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAL DNA;

ARCHAEON; CELL FUSION; CHROMOSOME; EVOLUTION; GENE FLOW; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; HALOBACTERIALES; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HYBRID; MEMBRANE VESICLE; MICROBIAL GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ARCHAEAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GENE; GENETICS; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

ARCHAEA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FLOW; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; GENOMICS;

EID: 85023647176     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro.2017.41     Document Type: Review

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