Contribution of horizontal gene transfer and deletion events to development of distinctive patterns of fimbrial operons during evolution of Salmonella serotypes

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 179, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 317-322

  Bäumler, Andreas J ^a,b   Gilde, Andries J ^a   Tsolis, Renée M ^a,c   Van Der Velden, Adrianus W M ^a   Ahmer, Brian M M ^a   Heffron, Fred ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENE DELETION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEROTYPE;

EID: 0031023006     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.2.317-322.1997     Document Type: Article

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