Horizontal acquisition of divergent chromosomal DNA in bacteria: Effects of mutator phenotypes

Genetics

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 13-21

  Townsend, Jeffrey P ^a,c   Nielsen, Kaare M ^a,d   Fishert, Daniel S ^b   Hartl, Daniel L ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL DNA; DNA FRAGMENT;

ADAPTATION; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; MODELS, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0038192446     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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