Recombination drives evolution of the Clostridium difficile 16S-23S rRNA intergenic spacer region

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Janezic, Sandra ^a   Indra, Alexander ^b   Rattei, Thomas ^c   Weinmaier, Thomas ^c   Rupnik, Maja ^a,d,e  

^a National Laboratory for Health Environment and Food   (Slovenia)

^b AUSTRIAN AGENCY FOR HEALTH AND FOOD SAFETY   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^e Centre of Excellence for Integrated Approaches in Chemistry and Biology of Proteins   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S; RNA 23S; SPACER DNA; TRANSFER RNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOTYPING; RNA RECOMBINATION; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DNA, INTERGENIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA, RIBOSOMAL;

EID: 84907225931     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0106545     Document Type: Article

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