The evolutionary genomics of pathogen recombination

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 50-60

  Awadalla, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BACTERIUM TRANSDUCTION; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DISEASE CONTROL; DNA VIRUS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; GENE LOCUS; GENE TRANSFER; GENEALOGY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; PARALOGY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA VIRUS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; DRUG RESISTANCE; EVOLUTION; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PHYLOGENY; PROTOZOA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE; VIRUSES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DNA VIRUSES; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; MELANOGASTER; PAN TROGLODYTES; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RNA VIRUSES; TROGLODYTES;

EID: 0037223888     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg964     Document Type: Review

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