Evolutionary and functional diversity of the Pseudomonas type IVa pilin island

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 250-264

  Giltner, Carmen L ^a   Rana, Navpreet ^a   Lunardo, Michael N ^a   Hussain, Anne Q ^a   Burrows, Lori L ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; FIMBRIA PROTEIN; PILQ PROTEIN, BACTERIA; PILX PROTEIN, PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; DNA SEQUENCE; FIMBRIA; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

IVA; PILA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 78650778360     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02327.x     Document Type: Article

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