Genome sequencing of environmental Escherichia coli expands understanding of the ecology and speciation of the model bacterial species

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 7200-7205

  Luo, Chengwei ^a   Walk, Seth T ^c   Gordon, David M ^d   Feldgarden, Michael ^e   Tiedje, James M ^f   Konstantinidis, Konstantinos T ^a,b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^f MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Genomics; Species concept

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; ECOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 79955559191     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1015622108     Document Type: Article

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