Comparative ICE genomics: Insights into the evolution of the SXT/R391 family of ICEs

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Wozniak, Rachel A F ^a,b,c   Fouts, Derrick E ^c   Spagnoletti, Matteo ^d   Colombo, Mauro M ^d   Ceccarelli, Daniela ^e   Garriss, Geneviève ^e   Déry, Christine ^e   Burrus, Vincent ^e   Waldor, Matthew K ^a,b,f  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^f HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOMICS; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; VIBRIO;

NEGIBACTERIA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOMICS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; VIBRIO;

EID: 74249093709     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000786     Document Type: Article

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