A barrier to homologous recombination between sympatric strains of the cooperative soil bacterium Myxococcus xanthus

ISME Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 2468-2477

  Wielgoss, Sébastien ^a   Didelot, Xavier ^b   Chaudhuri, Roy R ^c,d   Liu, Xuan ^c   Weedall, Gareth D ^c,e   Velicer, Gregory J ^a   Vos, Michiel ^f  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^e LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EXETER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; CLADISTICS; COLONIZATION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FOOD LIMITATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; RECOMBINATION; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SYMPATRY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

BACTERIAL SPORE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; MUTATION; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; PHENOTYPE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; MUTATION; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; PHENOTYPE; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84962651623     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2016.34     Document Type: Article

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