Rapidly evolving CRISPRs implicated in acquired resistance of microorganisms to viruses

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 200-207

  Tyson, Gene W ^a,c   Banfield, Jillian F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIOPHAGE; BIOFILM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENETICS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS;

BACTERIOPHAGES; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOFILMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; VIRUSES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LEPTOSPIRILLUM;

EID: 38149061877     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01444.x     Document Type: Article

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