Developing insights into the mechanisms of evolution of bacterial pathogens from whole-genome sequences

Future Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1283-1296

  Bryant, Josephine ^a   Chewapreecha, Claire ^a   Bentley, Stephen D ^a,b  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bacteria; evolution; genome sequencing; horizontal gene transfer; mutation; recombination; selection

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC MARKER; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, BACTERIAL; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84867729107     PISSN: 17460913     EISSN: 17460921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fmb.12.108     Document Type: Review

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