Similar ectopic gene conversion frequencies in the backbone genome of pathogenic and nonpathogenic Escherichia coli strains

Genomics

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 168-172

  Morris, Robert T ^a   Drouin, Guy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Backbone genome; Ectopic; Escherichia coli; Gene conversion; Pathogenic

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONVERSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE CONVERSION; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 49349083462     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: 10898646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2008.05.009     Document Type: Article

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