Three R's of bacterial evolution: How replication, repair, and recombination frame the origin of species

Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis

Volumn 38, Issue 2-3, 2001, Pages 248-260

  Setlow, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA replication; Escherichia coli; Horizontal transfer; Methyl directed mismatch repoir; Molecular evolution; Phylogeny; Recombination

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE BETA; GENE PRODUCT; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN MUTS; PROTEIN UVRD; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIUM; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SURVIVAL;

BACTERIA; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0035173584     PISSN: 08936692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/em.1079     Document Type: Article

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