Adaptation to the environment: Streptococcus pneumoniae, a paradigm for recombination-mediated genetic plasticity?

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 251-259

  Claverys, Jean Pierre ^a   Prudhomme, Marc ^a   Mortier Barrière, Isabelle ^a   Martin, Bernard ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ADAPTATION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; DNA RECOMBINATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0033978703     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01718.x     Document Type: Review

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