Virulence evolution of the human pathogen neisseria meningitidis by recombination in the core and accessory genome

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Joseph, Biju ^a   Schwarz, Roland F ^b   Linke, Burkhard ^c   Blom, Jochen ^c   Becker, Anke ^d   Claus, Heike ^a   Goesmann, Alexander ^c   Frosch, Matthias ^a   Müller, Tobias ^a   Vogel, Ulrich ^a   Schoen, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b CANCER RESEARCH UK CAMBRIDGE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOMIC ISLAND; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE POOL; GENETICS; HUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; SEROTYPING; VIRULENCE;

NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE POOL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEROTYPING; VIRULENCE;

EID: 79955625067     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018441     Document Type: Article

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