Phylogeographic reconstruction of a bacterial species with high levels of lateral gene transfer

BMC Biology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Pearson, Talima ^a   Giffard, Philip ^b,c   Beckstrom Sternberg, Stephen ^a,d   Auerbach, Raymond ^a,m   Hornstra, Heidie ^a   Tuanyok, Apichai ^a   Price, Erin P ^a,d   Glass, Mindy B ^e   Leadem, Benjamin ^a   Beckstrom Sternberg, James S ^d   Allan, Gerard J ^a   Foster, Jeffrey T ^a   Wagner, David M ^a   Okinaka, Richard T ^a,f   Sim, Siew H ^g   Pearson, Ofori ^h   Wu, Zaining ⁱ   Chang, Jean ⁱ   Kaul, Rajinder ⁱ   Hoffmaster, Alex R ^e   Brettin, Thomas S ^f   Robison, Richard A ^j   Mayo, Mark ^j   Gee, Jay E ^e   Tan, Patrick ^g,k   Currie, Bart J ^b,l   Keim, Paul ^a,d   more..

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

^d TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^f LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g Defense Medical and Environmental Research Institute   (Singapore)

^h U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^j BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k GENOME INSTITUTE OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^l ROYAL DARWIN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^m YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYESIAN LEARNING; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION GENETICS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIAL DNA;

AUSTRALIA; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 71049152453     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-78     Document Type: Article

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