Genetic variation and linkage disequilibrium in Bacillus anthracis

Scientific Reports

Volumn 1, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Zwick, Michael E ^a,b   Thomason, Maureen Kiley ^a   Chen, Peter E ^a   Johnson, Henry R ^c   Sozhamannan, Shanmuga ^a   Mateczun, Alfred ^a   Read, Timothy D ^a,b  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84859742463     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00169     Document Type: Article

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