Organised genome dynamics in the Escherichia coli species results in highly diverse adaptive paths

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Touchon, Marie ^a,b   Hoede, Claire ^c   Tenaillon, Olivier ^c   Barbe, Valérie ^d   Baeriswyl, Simon ^c   Bidet, Philippe ^c   Bingen, Edouard ^c   Bonacorsi, Stéphane ^c   Bouchier, Christiane ^e   Bouvet, Odile ^c   Calteau, Alexandra ^f   Chiapello, Hélène ^g   Clermont, Olivier ^c   Cruveiller, Stéphane ^f   Danchin, Antoine ^b   Diard, Médéric ^c   Dossat, Carole ^d   El Karoui, Meriem ^c   Frapy, Eric ^c   Garry, Louis ^c   Ghigo, Jean Marc ^b   Gilles, Anne Marie ^b   Johnson, James ^i,j   Le Bouguénec, Chantal ^e   Lescat, Mathilde ^c   Mangenot, Sophie ^d   Martinez Jéhanne, Vanessa ^e   Matic, Ivan ^c   Nassif, Xavier ^c   Oztas, Sophie ^d   Petit, Marie Agnès ^h   Pichon, Christophe ^e   Rouy, Zoé ^f   Ruf, Claude Saint ^c   Schneider, Dominique ^k   Tourret, Jérôme ^c   Vacherie, Benoit ^d   Vallenet, David ^f   Médigue, Claudine ^f   Rocha, Eduardo P C ^a,b   Denamur, Erick ^c   more..

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^d DIF   (France)

^e INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^f CENTRE NATIONAL DE SÉQUENÇAGE   (France)

^g INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

^h CEMAGREF   (France)

ⁱ VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^k UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRASE; TRANSFER RNA; VACCINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHROMOSOME; COMMENSAL ESCHERICHIA COLI; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ESCHERICHIA FERGUSONII; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE CONVERSION; GENE LOSS; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; PHYLOGENY; SHIGELLA; VIRULENCE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRANSPOSON;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SHIGELLA;

DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 59249089471     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000344     Document Type: Article

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