Impact of loci nature on estimating recombination and mutation rates in chlamydia trachomatis

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 761-768

  Ferreira, Rita ^a   Borges, Vítor ^a   Nunes, Alexandra ^a   Nogueira, Paulo Jorge ^b,c   Borrego, Maria Joś ^a   Gomes, João Paulo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH DR RICARDO JORGE   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA MOLECULAR   (Portugal)

^c General Directorate of Health Lisbon   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Clonalframe; Evolutionary; Inference; Mutation rate; Recombination rate

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHROMOSOME MAP; CLASSIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION RATE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY;

ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC LOCI; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION RATE; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84883390431     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21601836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/g3.112.002923     Document Type: Article

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