The population biology of bacterial plasmids: A hidden Markov model approach

Genetics

Volumn 176, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 957-968

  Ponciano, José M ^b   De Gelder, Leen ^a   Top, Eva M ^a   Joyce, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; GENETIC SELECTION; MARKOV MODEL; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

BACTERIA; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, GENETIC; PLASMIDS; SELECTION (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33847188754     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.106.061937     Document Type: Article

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