A comparison of the nucleotide sequences of the adk and recA genes of pathogenic and commensal Neisseria species: Evidence for extensive interspecies recombination within adk

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 631-640

  Feil, Edward ^a   Zhou, Jiaji ^a   Smith, John Maynard ^a   Spratt, Brian G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adenylate kinase; Codon linkage; Index of Association; Interspecies recombination; Linkage disequilibrium; Neisseria

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE KINASE; GENE PRODUCT; RECA PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CODON; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NEISSERIA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RECA GENE;

ADENYLATE KINASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEISSERIA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; REC A RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0030456375     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02202111     Document Type: Article

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