Article
Molecular genetics of populations of intracellular bacteria: the spotted fever group rickettsiae.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences - 1 Jan 1990
Fuerst P A, Poetter K P, Pretzman C, Perlman P S
Abstract excerpt
The population structure of tick-borne rickettsiae show the following characteristics: (1) the amount of genetic differentiation between strains within subpopulations is very small. (2) The evolution of the subpopulations does not fit into models based on either host or geographic similarities, suggesting the need for more information on the frequency of vertical versus horizontal transmission of strains between...
Topics
- Genes, Bacterial
- Genetic Variation
- Nucleotides
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
- Rickettsia