Genome-wide detection and analysis of homologous recombination among sequenced strains of Escherichia coli

Genome Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Mau, Bob ^a,b   Glasner, Jeremy D ^a   Darling, Aaron E ^c   Perna, Nicole T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ALLELE; BACTERIAL GENE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OPERON; PHYLOGENY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

EID: 33745112085     PISSN: 1474760X     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2006-7-5-r44     Document Type: Article

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