Playing Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: Combined mechanisms of phase variation in bacteria

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 570-581

  Hallet, Bernard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALLELE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BASE MISPAIRING; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE CONTROL; GENE CONVERSION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034787922     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-5274(00)00253-8     Document Type: Review

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