Genes under positive selection in Escherichia coli
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Genes under positive selection in Escherichia coli.
We used a comparative genomics approach to identify genes that are under positive selection in six strains of Escherichia coli and Shigella flexneri, including five strains that are human pathogens. We find that positive selection targets a wide range of different functions in the E. coli genome, including cell surface proteins such as beta barrel porins, presumably because of the involvement o...
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عنوان ژورنال: Genome Research
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1088-9051
DOI: 10.1101/gr.6254707