Natural selection, infectious transfer and the existence conditions for bacterial plasmids

Genetics

Volumn 155, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1505-1519

  Bergstrom, Carl T ^a   Lipsitch, Marc ^a,b   Levin, Bruce R ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHROMOSOME; EVOLUTION; GENE TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLASMIDS; SELECTION (GENETICS); TIME FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0033899751     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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