Recovery and evolutionary analysis of complete integron gene cassette arrays from Vibrio

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Boucher, Yan ^a   Nesbø, Camilla L ^b   Joss, Michael J ^a   Robinson, Andrew ^a   Mabbutt, Bridget C ^a   Gillings, Michael R ^a   Doolittle, W Ford ^b   Stokes, H W ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRASE; BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHROMOSOME; GENE; GENE CASSETTE; GENE ISOLATION; GENE TRANSFER; GENOMICS; INTEGRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; VIBRIO; BACTERIAL GENE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); VIBRIO; VIBRIO SP.;

DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC LIBRARY; INTEGRASES; INTEGRONS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIBRIO;

EID: 33644517533     PISSN: 14712148     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-6-3     Document Type: Article

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