Horizontal transfer of a virulence operon to the ancestor of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1129-1135

  Rosas Magallanes, Vania ^a   Deschavanne, Patrick ^b   Quintana Murci, Lluis ^c   Brosch, Roland ^a   Gicquel, Brigitte ^a   Neyrolles, Olivier ^a,c  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Horizontal gene transfer; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Tuberculosis; Virulence

Indexed keywords

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; EVOLUTION; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE TRANSFER; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOST CELL; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PARASITISM; PATHOGENESIS; PHAGOCYTE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; VIRULENCE;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OPERON; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS COMPLEX; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 33646855789     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msj120     Document Type: Article

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