Transfer of DNA from bacteria to eukaryotes

mBio

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Lacroix, Benoît ^a   Citovsky, Vitaly ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM; DNA TRANSFER; ENDOCYTOSIS; EUKARYOTE; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC CODE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; METABOLISM; TYPE IV SECRETION SYSTEM;

BACTERIAL DNA; TYPE IV SECRETION SYSTEM;

BACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; EUKARYOTA; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TYPE IV SECRETION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84986571195     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00863-16     Document Type: Article

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