Genomic Diversity and Homologous Recombination in Vibrio parahaemolyticus as Revealed by Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism (AFLP) and Multilocus Sequence Analysis (MLSA)

Microbes and Environments

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 373-379

  Thompson, Fabiano L ^a   Cleenwerck, Ilse ^b   Swings, Jean ^b   Matsuyama, Junko ^c   Iida, Tetsuya ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

AFLP; diversity; homologous recombination; MLSA; Vibrio parahaemolyticus

Indexed keywords

EID: 84962058879     PISSN: 13426311     EISSN: 13474405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.22.373     Document Type: Article

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