The Citrobacter rodentium genome sequence reveals convergent evolution with human pathogenic Escherichia coli

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 192, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 525-538

  Petty, Nicola K ^a   Bulgin, Richard ^b   Crepin, Valerie F ^b   Cerdeño Tárraga, Ana M ^a   Schroeder, Gunnar N ^b   Quail, Michael A ^a   Lennard, Nicola ^a   Corton, Craig ^a   Barron, Andrew ^a   Clark, Louise ^a   Toribio, Ana L ^a   Parkhill, Julian ^a   Dougan, Gordon ^a   Frankel, Gad ^b   Thomson, Nicholas R ^a  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI ENTEROTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CITROBACTER RODENTIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOMIC ISLAND; HOST; INFORMATION; INTESTINE CELL; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CITROBACTER RODENTIUM; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY;

CITROBACTER FREUNDII; CITROBACTER RODENTIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUS;

EID: 73649105812     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01144-09     Document Type: Article

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