The rhizome of life: The sympatric Rickettsia felis paradigm demonstrates the random transfer of DNA sequences

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3213-3223

  Merhej, Vicky ^a   Notredame, Cedric ^b   Royer Carenzi, Manuela ^c   Pontarotti, Pierre ^c   Raoult, Didier ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

bacterial rhizome; gene recombination; horizontal gene transfer; Rickettsia felis; sympatry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL RHIZOME; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; RHIZOME; RICKETTSIA FELIS; RICKETTSIOSIS; SYMPATRY;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOMICS; MODELS, GENETIC; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RICKETTSIA FELIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; FRANCISELLA; LEGIONELLA SP.; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA BELLII; RICKETTSIA FELIS; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS);

EID: 80052102014     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msr239     Document Type: Article

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