Evolutionary clues from comparative analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis variable-number tandem repeat sequences within genetic families

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 239-246

  Thorne, Nicola ^a   Underwood, Anthony ^a   Gharbia, Saheer ^a   Arnold, Cath ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clonal; Evolution; Lineage; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Nucleotide polymorphism; Phylogeny; Repeats; VNTR

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; INCIDENCE; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMANS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 33846562139     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2006.09.006     Document Type: Article

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