A population genetic study of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto from eastern Long Island, New York, suggested frequency-dependent selection, gene flow and host adaptation

Hereditas

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 203-216

  Qiu, Wei Gang ^a   Bosler, Edward M ^a   Campbell, Jason R ^a   Ugine, Gregory D ^a   Wang, Ing Nang ^a   Luft, Benjamin J ^a   Dykhuizen, Daniel E ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ADAPTATION; ALLELE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LYME DISEASE; NATURAL POPULATION; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GENETICS; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; SPIROCHETE; TICK; UNITED STATES;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODES SCAPULARIS; SPIROCHAETALES; UNDETERMINED SCIURIDAE 'CHIPMUNKS';

EID: 0031455862     PISSN: 00180661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-5223.1997.00203.x     Document Type: Article

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