Inter-species horizontal transfer resulting in core-genome and niche-adaptive variation within <it>Helicobacter pylori</it>

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Horizontal gene transfer is central to evolution in most bacterial species. The detection of exchanged regions is often based upon analysis of compositional characteristics and their comparison to the organism as a whole. In this stu...

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Main Authors: Peden John F, Boonmee Prawit, Saunders Nigel J, Jarvis Stephen A
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2005-01-01
Series:BMC Genomics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/6/9