A large scale comparative genomic analysis reveals insertion sites for newly acquired genomic islands in bacterial genomes

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Du, Pengcheng ^a   Yang, Yinxue ^b   Wang, Haiying ^a   Liu, Di ^c   Gao, George F ^c,d   Chen, Chen ^a  

^a CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^b NINGXIA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

evolution; genomic island; switch sites of GC skew

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOMIC ISLAND; PHYLOGENY; ARCHAEAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ARCHAEAL DNA; BACTERIAL DNA;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 79958772541     PISSN: 14712180     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-11-135     Document Type: Article

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