Phylogeography and population structure of the biologically invasive phytopathogen Erwinia amylovora inferred using minisatellites

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2112-2125

  Bühlmann, Andreas ^a   Dreo, Tanja ^a,b   Rezzonico, Fabio ^a,c   Pothier, Joël F ^a,c   Smits, Theo H M ^a,c   Ravnikar, Maja ^b   Frey, Jürg E ^a   Duffy, Brion ^a,c  

^a AGROSCOPE   (Switzerland)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Slovenia)

^c ZURICH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ERWINIA AMYLOVORA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; ERWINIA AMYLOVORA; EUROPE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; LYTHRACEAE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE EAST; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLANT DISEASE; UNITED STATES; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BAYES THEOREM; ERWINIA AMYLOVORA; EUROPE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HAPLOTYPES; MIDDLE EAST; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLANT DISEASES; PUNICACEAE; UNITED STATES; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84903782478     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12289     Document Type: Article

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