A new beginning with new ends: Linearisation of circular chromosomes during bacterial evolution

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 186, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 143-150

  Volff, Jean Nicolas ^a   Altenbuchner, Josef ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bacterial telomere; Borrelia; Chromosome circularization; Genetic instability; Linear chromosome; Streptomyces

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CIRCULAR DNA; PLASMID DNA;

BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM; BORRELIA; CHROMOSOME; EVOLUTION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC STABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; SHORT SURVEY; STREPTOMYCES; TELOMERE;

BACTERIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; STREPTOMYCES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; PROKARYOTA; SPIROCHAETALES; STREPTOMYCES; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0034607622     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(00)00118-X     Document Type: Short Survey

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