A North American Yersinia pestisdraft genome sequence: SNPs and phylogenetic analysis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Touchman, Jeffrey W ^a,b   Wagner, David M ^c   Hao, Jicheng ^a   Mastrian, Stephen D ^a   Shah, Maulik K ^a   Vogler, Amy J ^c   Allender, Christopher J ^c   Clark, Erin A ^a   Benitez, Debbie S ^a   Youngkin, David J ^a   Girard, Jessica M ^c   Auerbach, Raymond K ^c   Beckstrom Sternberg, Stephen M ^a,c   Keim, Paul ^a,c  

^a TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOTYPE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLAGUE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; YERSINIA PESTIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; DISEASE CARRIER; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; RODENT; RODENT DISEASE; SCIURIDAE; UNITED STATES; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

YERSINIA; YERSINIA PESTIS;

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANIMALS; ARIZONA; BASE SEQUENCE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; PLAGUE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RODENT DISEASES; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 35348943712     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000220     Document Type: Article

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