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Recombination within natural populations of pathogenic bacteria: short-term empirical estimates and long-term phylogenetic consequences.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 2 Jan 2001
Feil E J, Holmes E C, Bessen D E, Chan M S, Day N P, Enright M C, Goldstein R, Hood D W, Kalia A, Moore C E, Zhou J, Spratt B G
Abstract excerpt
The identification of clones within bacterial populations is often taken as evidence for a low rate of recombination, but the validity of this inference is rarely examined. We have used statistical tests of congruence between gene trees to examine the extent and significance of recombination in six bacterial pathogens. For Neisseria meningitidis, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Streptococcus pyogenes, and...
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