Shaping a bacterial genome by large chromosomal replacements, the evolutionary history of Streptococcus agalactiae

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 41, 2008, Pages 15961-15966

  Brochet, Mathieu ^a   Rusniok, Christophe ^a   Couvé, Elisabeth ^a   Dramsi, Shaynoor ^a   Poyart, Claire ^b   Trieu Cuot, Patrick ^a   Kunst, Frank ^a   Glaser, Philippe ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Conjugation; Evolution; Homologous recombination; Horizontal gene transfer; Population genomics

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME SUBSTITUTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMIC ISLAND; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEWBORN INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

EID: 57349116172     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0803654105     Document Type: Article

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