Chromosomal transfers in mycoplasmas: When minimal genomes go mobile

mBio

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Dordet Frisoni, Emilie ^a,b   Sagné, Eveline ^a,b   Baranowski, Eric ^a,b   Breton, Marc ^c,d   Nouvel, Laurent Xavier ^a,b   Blanchard, Alain ^c,d   Marenda, Marc Serge ^e   Tardy, Florence ^f,g   Sirand Pugnet, Pascal ^c,d   Citti, Christine ^a,b  

^a IHAP   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c Univ Bordeaux   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^f FRENCH AGENCY FOR FOOD   (France)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MYCOPLASMA; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; GENETICS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; MYCOPLASMA AGALACTIAE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA AGALACTIAE; MYCOPLASMATALES;

CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; MYCOPLASMA AGALACTIAE;

EID: 84920903443     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.01958-14     Document Type: Article

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