Small variable segments constitute a major type of diversity of bacterial genomes at the species level

Genome Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Touzain, Fabrice ^a   Denamur, Erick ^b   Médigue, Claudine ^c   Barbe, Valérie ^c   El Karoui, Meriem ^a   Petit, Marie Agnès ^a  

^a UMR1319 MICALIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c DIF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTE; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 77951608818     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2010-11-4-r45     Document Type: Article

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