Pan-Genome of Brucella Species

Indian Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 88-101

  Sankarasubramanian, Jagadesan ^a   Vishnu, Udayakumar S ^a   Sridhar, Jayavel ^a   Gunasekaran, Paramasamy ^a   Rajendhran, Jeyaprakash ^a  

^a MADURAI KAMARAJ UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Brucella; Brucellosis; Conserved sequence; Genomes; Phylogeny; Translocation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939887840     PISSN: 00468991     EISSN: 09737715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12088-014-0486-4     Document Type: Article

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