Genome evolution within the alpha Proteobacteria: Why do some bacteria not possess plasmids and others exhibit more than one different chromosome?

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 255-275

  Moreno, Edgardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Afipia; Agrobacterium; Anaplasma; Bacterial genome; Bartonella; Bradyrhizobium; Brucella; Mycoplana; Ochrobactrum; Phyllobacterium; Proteobacteria; Rhizobium; Rhodobacter; Rickettsia; Sinorhizobium

Indexed keywords

AFIPIA; ANAPLASMATACEAE; BACTERIAL GENE; BARTONELLACEAE; BRADYRHIZOBIUM; BRUCELLA; CHROMOSOME; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; MYCOPLASMA; NONHUMAN; OCHROBACTRUM; PATHOGENICITY; PLASMID; REVIEW; RHIZOBIUM; RHODOBACTER; RICKETTSIA; SINORHIZOBIUM;

AFIPIA; AGROBACTERIUM; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANAPLASMA; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BARTONELLA; BRADYRHIZOBIUM; BRUCELLA; MYCOPLANA; OCHROBACTRUM; PHYLLOBACTERIUM; PROTEOBACTERIA; RHIZOBIUM; RHODOBACTER; RICKETTSIA; SINORHIZOBIUM;

EID: 0031791490     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-6445(98)00016-3     Document Type: Article

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