Mutation rate of VNTR loci in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Response to Supply et al.

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1189-1190

  Tanaka, Mark M ^a   Reyes, Josephine F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Marker stability; Minisatellites; MIRU; MLVA; Rate of evolution; Tuberculosis; Variable numbers of tandem repeats; VNTR

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LETTER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION RATE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES COMPARISON; TUBERCULOSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; YERSINIA PESTIS;

MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH;

MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 79960434248     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2011.01.014     Document Type: Letter

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