Gene decay in Shigella as an incipient stage of host-adaptation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Feng, Ye ^a   Chen, Zhe ^b   Liu, Shu Lin ^a,c,d  

^a HARBIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Zhejiang Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DECAY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE LOSS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DRIFT; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PSEUDOGENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHIGELLA; ADAPTATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SHIGELLA;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MUTATION; OPERON; PSEUDOGENES; SHIGELLA;

EID: 81155131410     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027754     Document Type: Article

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