Mycoplasma

Bacterial Genomes and Infectious Diseases

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 175-190

  Sasaki, Yuko ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

antigenic variation; genome size; host specificity; Mollicutes; mycoplasma; ortholog; paralog; reductive evolution; self replication

Indexed keywords

EID: 68149162130     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-152-9_10     Document Type: Chapter

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