Horizontal gene transfer and homologous recombination drive the evolution of the nitrogen-fixing symbionts of Medicago species

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 189, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 5223-5236

  Bailly, Xavier ^a,b,c   Olivieri, Isabelle ^b   Brunel, Brigitte ^a   Cleyet Marel, Jean Claude ^a   Béna, Gilles ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^c LABORATOIRE DES SYMBIOSES TROPICALES ET MÉDITERRANÉENNES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FLOW; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MEDICAGO; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINORHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MEDICAE; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMBIONT;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MEDICAGO; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SINORHIZOBIUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MEDICAGO; MEDICAGO LACINIATA; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; SINORHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MEDICAE; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 34447549172     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00105-07     Document Type: Article

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