A very early-branching staphylococcus aureus lineage lacking the carotenoid pigment staphyloxanthin

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 881-895

  Holt, Deborah C ^a   Holden, Matthew T G ^b   Tong, Steven Y C ^a   Castillo Ramirez, Santiago ^c   Clarke, Louise ^b   Quail, Michael A ^b   Currie, Bart J ^a   Parkhill, Julian ^b   Bentley, Stephen D ^b   Feil, Edward J ^c   Giffard, Philip M ^a  

^a MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacterial species; CRISPR; Positive selection; Staphyloxanthin

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

STAPHYLOXANTHIN; XANTHOPHYLL;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; INVERTED REPEAT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, BACTERIAL; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; INVERTED REPEAT SEQUENCES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION, GENETIC; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; XANTHOPHYLLS;

EID: 84855753946     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evr078     Document Type: Article

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