Genomic fluidity: An integrative view of gene diversity within microbial populations

BMC Genomics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Kislyuk, Andrey O ^a,d   Haegeman, Bart ^b   Bergman, Nicholas H ^a,c   Weitz, Joshua S ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UMR 729 MISTEA   (France)

^c National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center   (United States)

^d PACIFIC BIOSCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOME SIZE; GENOMIC FLUIDITY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PREDICTION; RELIABILITY; STAPHYLOCOCCAL PNEUMONIA; STATISTICAL MODEL; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; BACTERIAL GENOME; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 78651281319     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-32     Document Type: Article

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