Tracking human migration patterns through the oral bacterial flora

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 15, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages 37-39

  Caufield, P W ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

Co evolution; Homo sapiens; Intergenetic spacer region; Phylogeny; Plasmid; Streptoccus mutans

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

AFRICA; ANTHROPOLOGY; ASIAN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CAUCASIAN; DNA SEQUENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC TRAIT; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; MIGRATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUTH CAVITY; MOUTH FLORA; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HOMO SAPIENS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 59649109055     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2008.02680.x     Document Type: Review

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