Phase variable genes of Campylobacter jejuni exhibit high mutation rates and specific mutational patterns but mutability is not the major determinant of population structure during host colonization

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 5876-5889

  Bayliss, Christopher D ^a   Bidmos, Fadil A ^a   Anjum, Awais ^a   Manchev, Vladimir T ^a   Richards, Rebecca L ^a   Grossier, Jean Philippe ^a   Wooldridge, Karl G ^b   Ketley, Julian M ^a   Barrow, Paul A ^b   Jones, Michael A ^b   Tretyakov, Michael V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYCYTIDYLIC ACID; POLYGUANYLIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CJ0031 GENE; CJ1139 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHASE VARIABLE GENE; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOCHASTIC MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CHICKENS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; MUTATION; MUTATION RATE; POLY C; POLY G;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 84864490075     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks246     Document Type: Article

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