Recombination and the population structures of bacterial pathogens

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue , 2001, Pages 561-590

  Feil, E J ^a   Spratt, B G ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clonal diversification; Linkage disequilibrium; Multilocus sequence typing; Phylogenetic signal; Recombination rates

Indexed keywords

CELL DIVISION; CLONE; EVOLUTION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PROKARYOTA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0034769889     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.55.1.561     Document Type: Review

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