Genomic islands in pathogenic and environmental microorganisms

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 414-424

  Dobrindt, Ulrich ^a   Hochhut, Bianca ^a   Hentschel, Ute ^a   Hacker, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; ALPHA ARABINOFURANOSIDASE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ENDOTOXIN; IRON; RHAMNOSE; SIDEROPHORE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ADAPTATION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; COMMENSALISM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOMIC ISLAND; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INTEGRON; IRON TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROVIDENCIA RETTGERI; PSEUDOMONAS; REVIEW; RHIZOBIACEAE; SALMONELLA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; SUBTRACTIVE HYBRIDIZATION; SYMBIOSIS; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA; TRANSPOSON; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WOLINELLA SUCCINOGENES; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PATHOGENICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; INSERTION SEQUENCES; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PROVIDENCIA RETTGERI; PSEUDOMONAS; RHIZOBIACEAE; SALMONELLA; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; THERMOTOGA; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA; TRANSPOSONS; UNIDENTIFIED INSERTION SEQUENCE; VIBRIO; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WOLINELLA; WOLINELLA SUCCINOGENES;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA;

EID: 2442449227     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro884     Document Type: Review

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