Gene transfer is a major factor in bacterial evolution
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Gene transfer is a major factor in bacterial evolution.
Lateral gene transfer in four strains of Salmonella enterica has been assessed using genomic subtraction. Strain LT2 (subspecies I serovar Typhimurium) chromosomal DNA was used as target and subtracted by three subspecies I strains of serovars Typhimurium (S21), Muenchen (S71), Typhi (M229), and a subspecies V strain (M321). Data from probing random cosmids of LT2 DNA with preparations of the r...
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عنوان ژورنال: Molecular Biology and Evolution
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0737-4038,1537-1719
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025569