Genomic species are ecological species as revealed by comparative genomics in Agrobacterium tumefaciens

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 762-781

  Lassalle, Florent ^a,b   Campillo, Tony ^a,c   Vial, Ludovic ^a   Baude, Jessica ^c   Costechareyre, Denis ^a   Chapulliot, David ^a   Shams, Malek ^a   Abrouk, Danis ^a   Lavire, Céline ^a   Oger Desfeux, Christine ^a   Hommais, Florence ^c   Guéguen, Laurent ^b   Daubin, Vincent ^b   Muller, Daniel ^a   Nesme, Xavier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium; Bacterial evolution; Bacterial species; Ecological niche; Linear chromosome

Indexed keywords

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RHIZOBIUM;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84856387181     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evr070     Document Type: Article

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