Naturally occurring horizontal gene transfer and homologous recombination in Mycobacterium

Microbiology

Volumn 150, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1707-1712

  Krzywinska, Elzbieta ^a,b   Krzywinski, Jaroslaw ^a   Schorey, Jeffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GLYCOPEPTIDE; LIPID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA INTEGRATION; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOSAICISM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEROTYPE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM;

EID: 3142783602     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27088-0     Document Type: Article

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