Large-scale intersubspecific recombination in the plant-pathogenic bacterium xylella fastidiosa is associated with the host shift to mulberry

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 80, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 3025-3033

  Nunney, Leonard ^a   Schuenzel, Erin L ^a   Scally, Mark ^b   Bromley, Robin E ^b   Stouthamerc, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PAN AMERICAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; GENES; MULTIPLEXING;

ADAPTIVE EVOLUTION; CENTRAL AMERICA; GENE SEQUENCES; GENETIC VARIANTS; GENETIC VARIATION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; SEQUENCE DATA; XYLELLA FASTIDIOSA;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

BACTERIUM; DATA SET; DECIDUOUS TREE; GENETIC VARIATION; HOMOLOGY; HOST PLANT; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMORPHISM; RECOMBINATION;

CENTRAL AMERICA;

CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HOST RANGE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORUS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; UNITED STATES; XYLELLA;

HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HOST SPECIFICITY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORUS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT DISEASES; UNITED STATES; XYLELLA;

EID: 84899095068     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.04112-13     Document Type: Article

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