Pervasive recombination and sympatric genome diversification driven by frequency-dependent selection in borrelia burgdorferi, the lyme disease bacterium

Genetics

Volumn 189, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 951-966

  Haven, James ^a,i   Vargas, Levy C ^b   Mongodin, Emmanuel F ^d   Xue, Vincent ^c   Hernandez, Yozen ^b   Pagan, Pedro ^b   Fraser Liggett, Claire M ^d   Schutzer, Steven E ^e   Luft, Benjamin J ^f   Casjens, Sherwood R ^g   Qiu, Wei Gang ^a,b,h  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c City University of New York   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h NATIONAL EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESIS CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGICAL SPECIALIZATION; EUROPE; FITNESS; GENE CONVERSION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; LYME DISEASE; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; OPEN READING FRAME; ORTHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SYMPATRY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE CONVERSION; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SYMPATRY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODIDA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 81255211327     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.111.130773     Document Type: Article

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