An attenuated strain of Bacillus anthracis (CDC 684) has a large chromosomal inversion and altered growth kinetics

BMC Genomics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Okinaka, Richard T ^a,b   Price, Erin P ^a   Wolken, Spenser R ^a   Gruendike, Jeffrey M ^a   Chung, Wai K ^a   Pearson, Talima ^a   Xie, Gary ^b   Munk, Chris ^b   Hill, Karen K ^b   Challacombe, Jean ^b   Ivins, Bruce E ^c   Schupp, James M ^d   Beckstrom Sternberg, Stephen M ^a,d   Friedlander, Arthur ^c   Keim, Paul ^a,b,d  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^d TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VIRUS MUTATION; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; CAVIA;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 80053352616     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-477     Document Type: Article

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