Evolutionary implications of the frequent horizontal transfer of mismatch repair genes

Cell

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 711-721

  Denamur, Erick ^a   Lecointre, Guillaume ^b   Darlu, Pierre ^c   Tenaillon, Olivier ^c   Acquaviva, Cécile ^a   Sayada, Chalom ^d   Sunjevaric, Ivana ^e   Rothstein, Rodney ^c,e   Elion, Jacques ^a   Taddei, François ^c   Radman, Miroslav ^c   Matic, Ivan ^c  

^a HÔPITAL ROBERT DEBRÉ   (France)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d Parc Scientifique de Luminy   (France)

^e The New York Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BASE MISPAIRING; BIODIVERSITY; DNA REPAIR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOSAICISM; NATURAL POPULATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0034703744     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)00175-6     Document Type: Article

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