Evolutionary changes of the flhDC flagellar master operon in Shigella strains

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 187, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 4295-4302

  Tominaga, Akira ^a,c   Lan, Ruiting ^b   Reeves, Peter R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

O ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLHDC GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE SYNTHESIS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DAMAGE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROTYPE; SHIGELLA;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FLAGELLA; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOVEMENT; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SHIGELLA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

SHIGELLA;

EID: 20444505242     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.187.12.4295-4302.2005     Document Type: Article

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