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Differences in lateral gene transfer in hypersaline versus thermal environments

BACKGROUND: The role of lateral gene transfer (LGT) in the evolution of microorganisms is only beginning to be understood. While most LGT events occur between closely related individuals, inter-phylum and inter-domain LGT events are not uncommon. These distant transfer events offer potentially great...

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Autores principales: Rhodes, Matthew E, Spear, John R, Oren, Aharon, House, Christopher H
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3236060/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21740576
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-11-199