Site-Specific Recombination Links the Evolution of P2-like Coliphages and Pathogenic Enterobacteria

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-13

  Nilsson, Anders S ^a   Karlsson, Joakim L ^a   Haggård Ljungquist, Elisabeth ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bacteriophage P2; Enterobacteria; Lysogenic conversion; Site specific recombination; Virulence factors

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; COLIPHAGE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENOME; HYBRIDIZATION; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; Z FUN GENE;

BACTERIOPHAGE P2; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, VIRAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRAL PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIA; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYOVIRIDAE; NEGIBACTERIA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PROKARYOTA; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 1242329495     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msg223     Document Type: Article

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