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Evolution and diversity of clonal bacteria: the paradigm of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
PloS one - 6 Feb 2008
Dos Vultos Tiago, Mestre Olga, Rauzier Jean, Golec Marcin, Rastogi Nalin, Rasolofo Voahangy, Tonjum Tone, Sola Christophe, Matic Ivan, Gicquel Brigitte
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex species display relatively static genomes and 99.9% nucleotide sequence identity. Studying the evolutionary history of such monomorphic bacteria is a difficult and challenging task. PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: We found that single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) analysis of DNA repair, recombination and replication (3R) genes in a comprehensive selection of M. tuberculosis...
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