The microbial pan-genome

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 589-594

  Medini, Duccio ^a   Donati, Claudio ^a   Tettelin, Hervé ^b   Masignani, Vega ^a   Rappuoli, Rino ^a  

^a CHIRON VACCINES   (Italy)

^b J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENOME; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOMICS; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; HUMANS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 27444438599     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2005.09.006     Document Type: Review

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