Lateral gene transfer and the nature of bacterial innovation

Nature

Volumn 405, Issue 6784, 2000, Pages 299-304

  Ochman, Howard ^a   Lawrence, Jeffrey G ^b   Grolsman, Eduardo A ^c  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENOME; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOPHAGES; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

EID: 0034682335     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35012500     Document Type: Review

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