Functional horizontal gene transfer from bacteria to eukaryotes

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 67-79

  Husnik, Filip ^a,b,c   McCutcheon, John P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; PEPTIDOGLYCAN;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; DETOXIFICATION; DNA INTEGRATION; DNA TRANSFER; ENDOSYMBIONT; EUKARYOTE; EXTREME ENVIRONMENT; GENE FUNCTION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ADAPTATION; BACTERIUM; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EUKARYOTA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL;

EID: 85043706978     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro.2017.137     Document Type: Review

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