From saprophytic to toxigenic clostridia, a complex evolution based on multiple diverse genetic transfers and/or rearrangements.
Institut Pasteur, Unité des Bactéries anaérobies et Toxines, 25 rue du Dr Roux, 75724 Paris cedex 15, France. Electronic address: mpopoff@pasteur.fr.
Michel R
MR
Popoff
D000220:Adaptation, Biological; D003013:Clostridium / Q000235:genetics* / Q000472:pathogenicity; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D015321:Gene Rearrangement; D022761:Gene Transfer, Horizontal