Quantifying nonvertical inheritance in the evolution of legionella pneumophila

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 985-1001

  Coscollá, Mireia ^a,b,c   Comas, Iñaki ^d   González Candelas, Fernando ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^c SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

horizontal gene transfer; intracellular habitat; phylogenomics; population genetics; population genomics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE MUTATION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENOMICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LEGIONELLA; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA;

EID: 78751561457     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msq278     Document Type: Article

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