Units of plasticity in bacterial genomes: New insight from the comparative genomics of two bacteria interacting with invertebrates, Photorhabdus and Xenorhabdus

BMC Genomics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Ogier, Jean Claude ^a,b   Calteau, Alexandra ^c   Forst, Steve ^d   Goodrich Blair, Heidi ^e   Roche, David ^c   Rouy, Zoé ^c   Suen, Garret ^e   Zumbihl, Robert ^a,b   Givaudan, Alain ^a,b   Tailliez, Patrick ^a,b   Médigue, Claudine ^c   Gaudriault, Sophie ^a,b  

^a University of Montpellier II   (France)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^c DIF   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSFER RNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA RECOMBINATION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENOME SIZE; GENOMIC ISLAND; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INTEGRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHOTORHABDUS; PHOTORHABDUS ASYMBIOTICA; PHOTORHABDUS LUMINESCENS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROPHAGE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; XENORHABDUS; XENORHABDUS BOVIENII; XENORHABDUS NEMATOPHILA; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; CHROMOSOME MAP; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; INVERTEBRATE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; SYNTENY; TIME;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA; PHOTORHABDUS; XENORHABDUS;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INVERTEBRATES; PHOTORHABDUS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE DELETION; SYNTENY; TIME FACTORS; XENORHABDUS;

EID: 77957922333     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-568     Document Type: Article

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