Niche-specificity and the variable fraction of the Pectobacterium pan-genome

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1549-1560

  Glasner, J D ^a   Marquez Villavicencio, M ^a   Kim, H S ^a   Jahn, C E ^a   Ma, B ^a   Biehl, B S ^a   Rissman, A I ^a   Mole, B ^b   Yi, X ^c   Yang, C H ^c   Dangl, J L ^b,d   Grant, S R ^b,d   Perna, N T ^a   Charkowski, A O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Erwinia; Host range; Soft rot

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTIG MAPPING; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GENOMICS; INDEL MUTATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PECTOBACTERIUM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CONTIG MAPPING; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; INDEL MUTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PECTOBACTERIUM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ERWINIA; PECTOBACTERIUM; PECTOBACTERIUM ATROSEPTICUM; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM;

EID: 57149083870     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-21-12-1549     Document Type: Article

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