DNA secretion and gene-level selection in bacteria

Microbiology

Volumn 152, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2683-2688

  Draghi, Jeremy A ^a   Turner, Paul E ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI;

BACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENETICS, POPULATION; MODELS, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS); TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33748777393     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.29013-0     Document Type: Article

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