Conjugative and mobilizable genomic islands in bacteria: Evolution and diversity

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 720-760

  Bellanger, Xavier ^a   Payot, Sophie ^b   Leblond Bourget, Nathalie ^b   Guédon, Gérard ^b  

^a Laboratoire de Chimie Physique et Microbiologie pour l'Environnement   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

Conjugative transposon; Mobilizable transposon; Mobilization in cis; Mobilization in trans; Pathogenicity island; Site specific recombination

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINASE;

BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CATALYSIS; CONJUGATION; GENE REPLICATION; GENOMIC ISLAND; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOST RANGE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; PROPHAGE; REVIEW;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

CONJUGATIVE TRANSPOSON; MOBILIZABLE TRANSPOSON; MOBILIZATION IN CIS; MOBILIZATION IN TRANS; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; SITE-SPECIFIC RECOMBINATION;

BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; GENOMIC ISLANDS;

EID: 84904066349     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: 15746976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1574-6976.12058     Document Type: Review

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