2010-04-08Zeitschriftenartikel
A Timescale for Evolution, Population Expansion, and Spatial Spread of an Emerging Clone of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Nübel, Ulrich; Dordel, Janina; Kurt, Kevin; Strommenger, Birgit; Westh, Henrik; Shukla, Sanjay K.; Zemličková, Helena; Leblois, Raphaël; Wirth, Thierry; Jombart, Thibaut; Balloux, François; Witte, Wolfgang
Due to the lack of fossil evidence, the timescales of bacterial evolution are largely unknown. The speed with which genetic change accumulates in populations of pathogenic bacteria, however, is a key parameter that is ...