Adaptive evolution of highly mutable loci in pathogenic bacteria

Current Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 24-33

  Moxon, E Richard ^a   Rainey, Paul B ^b   Nowak, Martin A ^b   Lenski, Richard E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; EVOLUTION; GENE CONVERSION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; REVIEW;

ANIMAL; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION; GENE CONVERSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE;

EID: 0028065674     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(00)00005-1     Document Type: Article

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