For absent friends: life without recombination in mutualistic γ-proteobacteria

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 233-242

  Sharples, Gary J ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA POLYMERASE; DNA TOPOISOMERASE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; EXONUCLEASE; PROTEIN SBCB; PROTEIN SBCCD; RECA PROTEIN; RECG HELICASE; RECJ PROTEIN; RECOMBINASE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIOPHAGE; CHROMOSOME DAMAGE; CLAM; DNA DAMAGE; DNA DEGRADATION; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; DNA TEMPLATE; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTE; EXCISION REPAIR; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOSS; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; INSECT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIVALVIA; DNA REPAIR; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; INSECTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REC A RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SYMBIOSIS;

BIVALVIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 66249088027     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2009.03.005     Document Type: Article

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