Large chromosomal rearrangements during a long-term evolution experiment with Escherichia coli

mBio

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Raeside, Colin ^a,b   Gaffé, Joël ^a,b   Deatherage, Daniel E ^c   Tenaillon, Olivier ^d   Briska, Adam M ^e,j   Ptashkin, Ryan N ^e,k   Cruveiller, Stéphane ^f,g   Médigue, Claudine ^f,g   Lenski, Richard E ^h,i   Barrick, Jeffrey E ^c,i   Schneider, Dominique ^a,b  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^e OpGen Inc   (United States)

^f CENTRE NATIONAL DE SÉQUENÇAGE   (France)

^g Genoscope   (France)

^h Laboratoire d’Analyses Bioinformatiques en Génomique et Métabolisme ^*  (United States)

ⁱ MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j DNASTAR Inc   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; TRANSPOSON;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CPSG GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME SIZE; HSDSM GENE; MANB GENE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PROPHAGE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHROMOSOME MAP; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; TRANSPOSON;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

CHROMOSOME INVERSION; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DELETION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84908439725     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.01377-14     Document Type: Article

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