Horizontal DNA Transfer Mechanisms of Bacteria as Weapons of Intragenomic Conflict

PLoS Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Croucher, Nicholas J ^a   Mostowy, Rafal ^a   Wymant, Christopher ^a   Turner, Paul ^b,c   Bentley, Stephen D ^d   Fraser, Christophe ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Angkor Hospital for Children   (Cambodia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL KILLING; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA TRANSFER; ENZYME RELEASE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENOME; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HORIZONTAL DNA TRANSFER; INTRAGENOMIC CONFLICT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOBILE GENETIC ELEMENT; NONHUMAN; SIMULATION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; PHYSIOLOGY; PROPHAGE; STREPTOCOCCUS; VIROLOGY;

DNA TRANSFORMATION COMPETENCE; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; PROPHAGES; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 84962155985     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002394     Document Type: Article

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