Fitting the niche by genomic adaptation

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 92-93

  Thomson, Nicholas ^a   Bentley, Stephen ^a   Holden, Matthew ^a   Parkhill, Julian ^a  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIUM; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT DISEASE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; HUMANS; PLANT DISEASES;

EID: 1842509067     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro756     Document Type: Article

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