Building a History of Horizontal Gene Transfer in E. Coli

Bacteria's ability to pass entire genes between one another, a process called Horizontal Gene Transfer (HGT), has a major impact on bacterial evolution. In an ongoing project at Harvey Mudd, computational methods have been used to catalogue the HGT events that have impacted a group of closely r...

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Main Author: Wilber, Matthew
Format: Others
Published: Scholarship @ Claremont 2016
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Online Access:http://scholarship.claremont.edu/hmc_theses/75
http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1087&context=hmc_theses