Microbial Evolution: Stalking the Wild Bacterial Species

Current Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 13, 2008, Pages

  Doolittle, W Ford ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; CAMPYLOBACTER COLI; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; NOMENCLATURE; SHORT SURVEY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CAMPYLOBACTER COLI; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 45849144049     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.05.029     Document Type: Short Survey

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