Extensive cotransformation of natural variation into chromosomes of naturally competent Haemophilus influenzae

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 717-731

  Mell, Joshua Chang ^a   Lee, Jae Yun ^a   Firme, Marlo ^a   Sinha, Sunita ^a   Redfie, Rosemary J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Heteroduplex; Horizontal gene; Line; Nearly isogenic; Recombination; Segregation; Transfer

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; HETERODUPLEX;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHROMOSOME VARIANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COTRANSFORMATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE REPLICATION; GENE SEGREGATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; RECIPIENT;

EID: 84898861325     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21601836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/g3.113.009597     Document Type: Article

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