Genomic rearrangements during evolution of the obligate intracellular parasite Rickettsia prowazekii as inferred from an analysis of 52015 bp nucleotide sequence

Microbiology

Volumn 143, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 2783-2795

  Andersson, Jan O ^a   Andersson, Siv G E ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Genome sequencing; Rickettsia prowazekii

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CONTIG; GENE PRODUCT; HEMOLYSIN;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; DATA BASE; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE ORDER; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENOME; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; MACROMOLECULE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPLICON; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOP CODON;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII;

EID: 0030766584     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-143-8-2783     Document Type: Article

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