Plastic architecture of bacterial genome revealed by comparative genomics of Photorhabdus variants

Genome Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Gaudriault, Sophie ^a,b   Pages, Sylvie ^a,b   Lanois, Anne ^a,b   Laroui, Christine ^a,b   Teyssier, Corinne ^b   Jumas Bilak, Estelle ^b   Givaudan, Alain ^a,b  

^a University of Montpellier II   (France)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLONAL VARIATION; COMPARATIVE GENE MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA MICROARRAY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PHOTORHABDUS LUMINESCENS; SYMBIOSIS; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORHABDUS; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA; PHOTORHABDUS; PHOTORHABDUS LUMINESCENS;

ANIMALS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DELETION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORHABDUS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RHABDITOIDEA; VARIATION (GENETICS); VIRULENCE;

EID: 49649106129     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2008-9-7-r117     Document Type: Article

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