Contingency loci, mutator alleles, and their interactions. Synergistic strategies for microbial evolution and adaptation in pathogenesis

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 870, Issue , 1999, Pages 378-381

  Field, Dawn ^a   Magnasco, Marcelo O ^b   Moxon, E Richard ^d   Metzgar, David ^a   Tanaka, Mark M ^c   Wills, Christopher ^a   Thaler, David S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ADAPTATION; ALLELE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA METABOLISM; DNA REPLICATION; EVOLUTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; HOST RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0032775892     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb08907.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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