Genetic divergence and evolutionary instability in ospE-related members of the upstream homology box gene family in Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex isolates

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 4656-4668

  Sung, Shian Ying ^a   Lavoie, Crystal P ^a   Carlyon, Jason A ^a   Marconi, Richard T ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOMEOBOX; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI;

EID: 0031688266     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.10.4656-4668.1998     Document Type: Article

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