An appraisal of the potential for illegitimate recombination in bacterial genomes and its consequences: From duplications to genome reduction

Genome Research

Volumn 13, Issue 6 A, 2003, Pages 1123-1132

  Rocha, Eduardo P C ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TANDEM REPEAT;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CLOSTRIDIUM; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HAEMOPHILUS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; METHANOSARCINA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0037803483     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.966203     Document Type: Article

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