Evolution of Smooth Tubercle Bacilli PE and PE_PGRS Genes: Evidence for a Prominent Role of Recombination and Imprint of Positive Selection

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Namouchi, Amine ^a,c   Karboul, Anis ^a   Fabre, Michel ^b   Gutierrez, Maria Cristina ^c   Mardassi, Helmi ^a  

^a PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b PERCY MILITARY HOSPITAL   (France)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GRANULOMA; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; MACROPHAGE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PE GENE; PE PGRS GENE; PHYLOGENY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CODON; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; GENOTYPE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION RATE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONTUBERCULOUS MYCOBACTERIA; NUCLEOTIDES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84877987208     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064718     Document Type: Article

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