CRISPR elements in Yersinia pestis acquire new repeats by preferential uptake of bacteriophage DNA, and provide additional tools for evolutionary studies

Microbiology

Volumn 151, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 653-663

  Pourcel, C ^a   Salvignol, G ^a   Vergnaud, Gilles ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b CENTRE D ETUDES DU BOUCHET   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPHAGE DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT INTERSPERSED REPEAT; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

BACTERIOPHAGES; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, VIRAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; VIRUS INTEGRATION; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

ARCHAEA; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 15844390228     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27437-0     Document Type: Article

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