Massive gene decay in the leprosy bacillus

Nature

Volumn 409, Issue 6823, 2001, Pages 1007-1011

  Cole, S T ^a   Eiglmeier, K ^a   Parkhill, J ^b   James, K D ^b   Thomson, N R ^b   Wheeler, P R ^c   Honore N ^a   Garnier, T ^a   Churcher, C ^b   Harris, D ^b   Mungall, K ^b   Basham, D ^b   Brown, D ^b   Chillingworth, T ^b   Connor, R ^b   Davies, R M ^b   Devlin, K ^b   Duthoy, S ^a   Feltwell, T ^b   Fraser, A ^b   Hamlin, N ^b   Holroyd, S ^b   Hornsby, T ^b   Jagels, K ^b   Lacroix, C ^a   Maclean, J ^b   Moule, S ^b   Murphy, L ^b   Oliver, K ^b   Quail, M A ^b   Rajandream, M A ^b   Rutherford, K M ^b   Rutter, S ^b   Seeger, K ^b   Simon, S ^a   Simmonds, M ^b   Skelton, J ^b   Squares, R ^b   Squares, S ^b   Stevens, K ^b   Taylor, K ^b   Whitehead, S ^b   Woodward, J R ^b   Barrell, B G ^b   more..

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; GENE DELETION; GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ARMADILLOS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENERGY METABOLISM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LEPROSY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ARMADILLO; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LEPROSY BACILLUS; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0035931926     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35059006     Document Type: Article

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