The early phase of a bacterial insertion sequence infection

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 278-288

  Bichsel, Manuel ^a   Barbour, Andrew ^a   Wagner, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Branching process; Horizontal gene transfer; Insertion sequence; Mobile DNA

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DISEASE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EXTINCTION; FITNESS; GENE FLOW; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; TRANSPOSON;

DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENES, BACTERIAL; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 77958511671     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2010.08.003     Document Type: Article

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