Worldwide population structure, long-term demography, and local adaptation of Helicobacter pylori

Genetics

Volumn 200, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 947-963

  Montano, Valeria ^a,b   Didelot, Xavier ^c   Foll, Matthieu ^d,e   Linz, Bodo ^f,g   Reinhardt, Richard ^h,i   Suerbaum, Sebastian ^j   Moodley, Yoshan ^a,k   Jensen, Jeffrey D ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

^e SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^f PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFECTION BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^h Max Planck Genome Centre Cologne   (Germany)

ⁱ MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^j HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^k UNIVERSITY OF VENDA   (South Africa)

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Author keywords

Adaptation; Human pathogens; Neutral evolution

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ATP BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTER YECS; ATP BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTER YKPA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COPPER; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACETONE CARBOXYLASE BETA SUBUNIT GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; COPPER METABOLISM; CYTOTOXIN PROTEIN LIKE VACA GENE; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPAIR; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION FACTOR NUSA GENE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA INDUCING PROTEIN TIP ALPHA GENE; VACUOLATING CYTOTOXIN AUTOTRANSPORTER GENE; ADAPTATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY;

HELICOBACTER PYLORI;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84937060575     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.115.176404     Document Type: Article

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