Phylogeny of a relapsing fever Borrelia species transmitted by the hard tick Ixodes scapularis

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 27, Issue , 2014, Pages 551-558

  Barbour, Alan G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Genomics; Lyme disease; Spirochetes; Tick borne disease

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RIBOSOME PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BORRELIA; BORRELIA ANSERINA; BORRELIA LONESTARI; BORRELIA MIYAMOTOI; CHROMOSOME; COEVOLUTION; DNAE GENE; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; IXODES SCAPULARIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NEIGHBOR JOINING METHOD; NONHUMAN; PARAPHYLY; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECC GENE; RPOC GENE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HUMAN; IXODES; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; RELAPSING FEVER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSMISSION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; BORRELIA; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; IXODES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RELAPSING FEVER; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84951905515     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2014.04.022     Document Type: Article

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