How genomes rearrange: Genome comparison within bacteria Neisseria suggests roles for mobile elements in formation of complex genome polymorphisms

Gene

Volumn 383, Issue , 2006, Pages 52-63

  Kawai, Mikihiko ^a,b   Nakao, Keiichiro ^a,c   Uchiyama, Ikuo ^d   Kobayashi, Ichizo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d National Institutes of Natural Sciences   (Japan)

Author keywords

Genome evolution; Inversion; IS1016 Merlin; IS1655; Phage; Transposon

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE GENE MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEISSERIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHAGE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSPOSON;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENOME, BACTERIAL; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; MODELS, GENETIC; NEISSERIA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEISSERIA;

EID: 33750068608     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2006.07.013     Document Type: Article

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