Ecological overlap and horizontal gene transfer in Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1313-1328

  Méric, Guillaume ^a   Miragaia, Maria ^b   De Been, Mark ^c   Yahara, Koji ^a,d   Pascoe, Ben ^a   Mageiros, Leonardos ^a   Mikhail, Jane ^a   Harris, Llinos G ^a   Wilkinson, Thomas S ^a   Rolo, Joana ^b   Lamble, Sarah ^e   Bray, James E ^f   Jolley, Keith A ^f   Hanage, William P ^g   Bowden, Rory ^e   Maiden, Martin C J ^f   Mack, Dietrich ^a,h   De Lencastre, Hermínia ^b,i   Feil, Edward J ^j   Corander, Jukka ^k   Sheppard, Samuel K ^a   more..

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d KURUME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^g HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^h Bioscientia Center for Human Genetics   (Germany)

ⁱ ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^k UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

more..

Author keywords

Ecology; Evolution; Nosocomial infections; Recombination; Staphylococcus

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL GENOME; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

ECOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESSES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, FUNGAL; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 84942321996     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evv066     Document Type: Article

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