A single regulatory gene is sufficient to alter bacterial host range

Nature

Volumn 458, Issue 7235, 2009, Pages 215-218

  Mandel, Mark J ^a   Wollenberg, Michael S ^a   Stabb, Eric V ^b   Visick, Karen L ^c   Ruby, Edward G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEOME; RIBOSOME RNA;

BACTERIUM; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CEPHALOPOD; COLONIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; HOST RANGE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; SYMBIOSIS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; BIOFILM; EVOLUTION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; RSCS GENE; SQUID; SYMBIOSIS; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; BIOFILMS; DECAPODIFORMES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; PROTEIN KINASES; SYMBIOSIS; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CEPHALOPODA; EUPRYMNA SCOLOPES; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

EID: 62249192807     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07660     Document Type: Article

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