The impact of recombination on dN/dS within recently emerged bacterial clones

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Castillo Ramírez, Santiago ^a   Harris, Simon R ^b   Holden, Matthew T G ^b   He, Miao ^b   Parkhill, Julian ^b   Bentley, Stephen D ^b   Feil, Edward J ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CLONE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CLONE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; POPULATION SIZE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; BACTERIAL GENE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 79960967240     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002129     Document Type: Article

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