O-antigen diversity and lateral transfer of the wbe region among Vibrio splendidus isolates

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2977-2987

  Wildschutte, Hans ^a   Preheim, Sarah P ^a   Hernandez, Yasiel ^a,b   Polz, Martin F ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

O ANTIGEN;

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; SEROTYPING; UNITED STATES; VIBRIO;

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MASSACHUSETTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; O ANTIGENS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING; VIBRIO; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; NEGIBACTERIA; PRUNUS DOMESTICA; VIBRIO; VIBRIO SPLENDIDUS;

EID: 78249258710     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02274.x     Document Type: Article

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