Ongoing purifying selection on intergenic spacers in group A streptococcus

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 343-348

  Luo, Haiwei ^a   Tang, Jijun ^b   Friedman, Robert ^a   Hughes, Austin L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b The Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial spacers; Group A streptococcus; Purifying selection; Slightly deleterious mutations; Streptococcus pyogenes

Indexed keywords

SPACER DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, INTERGENIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; SELECTION, GENETIC; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP A';

EID: 79951956217     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2010.11.005     Document Type: Article

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