Microbial diversity and the genetic nature of microbial species

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 431-440

  Achtman, Mark ^a,b   Wagner, Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFECTION BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; METICILLIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; RNA 16S;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOSS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SEQUENCE DATABASE; TYPHOID FEVER;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETICS, MICROBIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS); VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 43849089834     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1872     Document Type: Review

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