Combining Quantitative Genetic Footprinting and Trait Enrichment Analysis to Identify Fitness Determinants of a Bacterial Pathogen

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Wiles, Travis J ^a   Norton, J Paul ^a   Russell, Colin W ^a   Dalley, Brian K ^b   Fischer, Kael F ^a,c   Mulvey, Matthew A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c ARUP LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FOOTPRINTING; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOME ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSPOSON; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC FITNESS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MENINGITIS; MICE; PHYLOGENY; SEPSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84884629864     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003716     Document Type: Article

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