The maintenance of sex in bacteria is ensured by its potential to reload genes

Genetics

Volumn 174, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 2173-2180

  Szöllosi, Gergely J ^a   Derényi, Imre ^a   Vellai, Tibor ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL REPRODUCTION; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACTERIA; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33845736436     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.106.063412     Document Type: Article

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