Recombination in thermotoga: Implications for species concepts and biogeography

Genetics

Volumn 172, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 759-769

  Nesbø, Camilla L ^a   Dlutek, Marlena ^b   Doolittle, W Ford ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOTYPE; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC LINE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; SPECIES COEXISTENCE; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; THERMOTOGA; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

BASE SEQUENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RESEARCH SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; RESEARCH SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA; THERMOTOGA NEAPOLITANA; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA; THERMOTOGA;

EID: 33644749286     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.105.049312     Document Type: Article

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