Genome dynamics and its impact on evolution of Escherichia coli

Medical Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 199, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 145-154

  Dobrindt, Ulrich ^a   Chowdary, M Geddam ^a   Krumbholz, G ^a   Hacker, J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina   (Germany)

Author keywords

Commensalism; Escherichia coli; Mobile genetic elements; Pathogenicity islands; Virulence

Indexed keywords

VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ADAPTATION; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE; COMMENSAL ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENVIRONMENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC CODE; GENOMIC ISLAND; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; UROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ANIMAL; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 77955551635     PISSN: 03008584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00430-010-0161-2     Document Type: Review

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