Genetic structure of natural populations of Escherichia coli in wild hosts on different continents

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 3373-3385

  Souza, Valeria ^a   Rocha, Martha ^a   Valera, Aldo ^a   Eguiarte, Luis E ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENOTYPE; PHENOTYPE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; ELECTROPHORESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; NATURAL POPULATION; NONHUMAN; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TAXONOMY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0032766627     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.8.3373-3385.1999     Document Type: Article

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