Unity in variety-the pan-genome of the chlamydiae

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3253-3270

  Collingro, Astrid ^a   Tischler, Patrick ^b   Weinmaier, Thomas ^a   Penz, Thomas ^a   Heinz, Eva ^a,c   Brunham, Robert C ^d   Read, Timothy D ^e   Bavoil, Patrik M ^f   Sachse, Konrad ^g   Kahane, Simona ^h   Friedman, Maureen G ^h   Rattei, Thomas ^a,b   Myers, Garry S A ⁱ   Horn, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d BRITISH COLUMBIA CENTRE FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Canada)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^g Centre collaborateur de l'Organisation mondiale de la santé animale   (Germany)

^h BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

bacterial pathogens; intracellular bacteria; pathogen host interaction; protozoa; sexually transmitted disease; symbiosis

Indexed keywords

MAJOR OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MAJOR OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN LIKE PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CHLAMYDIACEAE; CHLAMYDIAE; CHROMOSOME; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARACHLAMYDIA ACANTHAMOEBAE; PLASMID; SIMKANIA NEGEVENSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TYPE IV SECRETION SYSTEM; WADDLIA CHONDROPHILA;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEMS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL MEMBRANE; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIALES; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIACEAE; CHLAMYDIAE; EUKARYOTA; PARACHLAMYDIA ACANTHAMOEBAE; PROTOZOA; SIMKANIA NEGEVENSIS; WADDLIA CHONDROPHILA;

EID: 80055122428     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msr161     Document Type: Article

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