The gene cassette metagenome is a basic resource for bacterial genome evolution

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 383-394

  Holmes, Andrew J ^a,b   Gillings, Michael R ^a   Nield, Blair S ^a   Mabbutt, Bridget C ^a   Nevalainen, K M Helena ^a   Stokes, H W ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; INTEGRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSERTION SEQUENCES; PROKARYOTA; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 0037737997     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-2920.2003.00429.x     Document Type: Article

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