Looking for Darwin's footprints in the microbial world

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 196-204

  Shapiro, B Jesse ^a   David, Lawrence A ^a   Friedman, Jonathan ^a   Alm, Eric J ^a,b,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c Virtual Institute for Microbial Stress and Survival   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MICROBIAL GENETICS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW;

BACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, BACTERIAL; SELECTION (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 65449117702     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2009.02.002     Document Type: Review

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