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Recombination-independent rapid convergent evolution of the gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori

BACKGROUND: Helicobacter pylori is a human stomach pathogen, naturally-competent for DNA uptake, and prone to homologous recombination. Extensive homoplasy (i.e., phylogenetically-unlinked identical variations) observed in H. pylori genes is considered a hallmark of such recombination. However, H. p...

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Autores principales: Chattopadhyay, Sujay, Chi, Peter B., Minin, Vladimir N., Berg, Douglas E., Sokurenko, Evgeni V.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6249973/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30463511
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12864-018-5231-7