Does my genome look big in this?

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 878-879

  Walker, Alan ^a   Langridge, Gemma ^a  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BORRELIA; BORRELIA INFECTION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; ENDOSYMBIONT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOME SIZE; LYME DISEASE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICKETTSIALES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES COMPARISON; THERMOFILUM;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD VECTORS; BACTERIA; BORRELIA; EVOLUTION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; RELAPSING FEVER; SYMBIOSIS; VIRULENCE; WEEVILS;

EID: 56349143347     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2044     Document Type: Article

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