Gene loss dominates as a source of genetic variation within clonal pathogenic bacterial species

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 2173-2187

  Bolotin, Evgeni ^a   Hershberg, Ruth ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bacterial evolution; Clonal pathogens; Gene loss; Pangenome; Sources of variation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PSEUDOGENE;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; PSEUDOGENES;

EID: 84954323025     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evv135     Document Type: Article

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