Genetic structure of marine Borrelia garinii and population admixture with the terrestrial cycle of Lyme borreliosis

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2453-2467

  Gómez Díaz, Elena ^a,b   Boulinier, Thierry ^c   Sertour, Natacha ^d   Cornet, Muriel ^d   Ferquel, Elisabeth ^d   McCoy, Karen D ^a  

^a University de Montpellier   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY CSIC UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^d INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIRD; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PACIFIC OCEAN; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS;

ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BASE SEQUENCE; BIRDS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SELECTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA GARINII; IXODES URIAE; IXODIDA; SPIROCHAETA; SPIROCHAETALES; SPIROCHAETES;

EID: 80052615886     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02515.x     Document Type: Article

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