Are horizontal transfers involved in the evolution of the Streptococcus thermophilus exopolysaccharide synthesis loci?

Gene

Volumn 233, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 151-161

  Bourgoin, F ^a   Pluvinet, A ^a   Gintz, B ^a   Decaris, B ^a   Guedon G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

Chimeric locus; Lactic acid bacteria; Lactococcus lactis; Mosaic gene; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; GENE TRANSFER; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; OPEN READING FRAMES; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; STREPTOCOCCUS;

LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; PROKARYOTA; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 0032792378     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(99)00144-4     Document Type: Article

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