Concept information
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Molecular Sequence Data
Base Sequence
Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
Interspersed Repetitive Sequences
Preferred term
Genomic Islands
Type
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Topical Descriptor
Broader concept
Entry terms
- Anchored Genomic Island
- Anchored Genomic Islands
- Genomic Island, Anchored
- Genomic Islands, Anchored
- Genomic Islet
- Genomic Islets
- Island, Anchored Genomic
- Island, Pathogenicity
- Islands, Anchored Genomic
- Islands, Pathogenicity
- Islands, Symbiosis
- Island, Symbiosis
- Islet, Genomic
- Islet, Pathogenicity
- Islets, Genomic
- Islets, Pathogenicity
- Islets, Symbiosis
- Islet, Symbiosis
- Pathogenicity Island
- Pathogenicity Islands
- Pathogenicity Islet
- Pathogenicity Islets
- Symbiosis Island
- Symbiosis Islands
- Symbiosis Islet
- Symbiosis Islets
Scope note
- Distinct units in some bacterial, bacteriophage or plasmid GENOMES that are types of MOBILE GENETIC ELEMENTS. Encoded in them are a variety of fitness conferring genes, such as VIRULENCE FACTORS (in "pathogenicity islands or islets"), ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE genes, or genes required for SYMBIOSIS (in "symbiosis islands or islets"). They range in size from 10 - 500 kilobases, and their GC CONTENT and CODON usage differ from the rest of the genome. They typically contain an INTEGRASE gene, although in some cases this gene has been deleted resulting in "anchored genomic islands".
History note
- 2004
In other languages
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Finnish
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genomisaareke
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patogeenisuussaareke
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patogeenisuussaarekkeet
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perimän saareke
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perimän saarekkeet
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perimäsaareke
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perimäsaarekkeet
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Swedish
URI
http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D044404
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