Diversification of bacterial genome content through distinct mechanisms over different timescales

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Croucher, Nicholas J ^a,b   Coupland, Paul G ^c   Stevenson, Abbie E ^a   Callendrello, Alanna ^a   Bentley, Stephen D ^c   Hanage, William P ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CHROMOSOME; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RECOMBINATION; TIMESCALE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMIC ISLAND; NONHUMAN; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PROPHAGE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; TIME FACTOR;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

DNA RESTRICTION-MODIFICATION ENZYMES; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; PROPHAGES; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84923351553     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6471     Document Type: Article

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