The Chlamydophila abortus genome sequence reveals an array of variable proteins that contribute to interspecies variation

Genome Research

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 629-640

  Thomson, Nicholas R ^a   Yeats, Corin ^a   Bell, Kenneth ^b   Holden, Matthew T G ^a   Bentley, Stephen D ^a   Livingstone, Morag ^c   Cerdeño Tárraga, Ana M ^a   Harris, Barbara ^a   Doggett, Jon ^a   Ormond, Doug ^a   Mungall, Karen ^a   Clarke, Kay ^a   Feltwell, Theresa ^a   Hance, Zahra ^a   Sanders, Mandy ^a   Quail, Michael A ^a   Price, Claire ^a   Barrell, Bart G ^a   Parkhill, Julian ^a   Longbottom, David ^c  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c MOREDUN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRYPTOPHAN METABOLISM; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOLOGY; CHLAMYDOPHILA; CHROMOSOME MAP; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

CHLAMYDIACEAE; CHLAMYDOPHILA ABORTUS; CHLAMYDOPHILA CAVIAE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PRIMER DNA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLAMYDOPHILA; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOGENES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 21144469747     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.3684805     Document Type: Article

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