THE ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION OF TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE

被引:21
作者
JOHNSON, R
ADAMS, J
机构
[1] Rebecca Johnson and Julian Adams are, the Dept of Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
基金
澳大利亚研究理事会; 美国国家科学基金会;
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D O I
10.1016/0169-5347(92)90226-2
中图分类号
Q14 [生态学(生物生态学)];
学科分类号
071012 ; 0713 ;
摘要
The use of tetracycline over the past few decades has been accompanied by a drastic increase in the frequency of tetracycline resistance in a wide range of bacterial species and genera. A diversity of resistance determinants is found in the microbial world, coding for markedly different mechanisms of resistance. The recent analysis of one family of resistance determinants provides evidence for intergenic and intragenic coevolutionary changes as well as for an unusual evolutionary history of duplication and divergence in function of domains within a single locus.
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