The genome sequence of Bacillus anthracis Ames and comparison to closely related bacteria

Nature

Volumn 423, Issue 6935, 2003, Pages 81-86

  Read, Timothy D ^a,b   Peterson, Scott N ^a,c   Tourasse, Nicolas ^e,h   Baillie, Les W ^a,b,f   Paulsen, Ian T ^a,g   Nelson, Karen E ^a   Tettelin, Hervé ^a   Fouts, Derrick E ^a   Eisen, Jonathan A ^a,g   Gill, Steven R ^a   Holtzapple, Erik K ^a   Økstad, Ole Andreas ^e,h   Helgason, Erlendur ^e,h   Rilstone, Jennifer ^a   Wu, Martin ^a   Kolonay, James F ^a   Beanan, Maureen J ^a   Dodson, Robert J ^a   Brinkac, Lauren M ^a   Gwinn, Michelle ^a   DeBoy, Robert T ^a   Madpu, Ramana ^a   Daugherty, Sean C ^a   Durkin, A Scott ^a   Haft, Daniel H ^a   Nelson, William C ^a   Peterson, Jeremy D ^a   Pop, Mihai ^a   Khouri, Hoda M ^a   Radune, Diana ^a   Benton, Jonathan L ^a   Mahamoud, Yasmin ^a   Jiang, Lingxia ^a   Hance, Ioana R ^a   Weidman, Janice F ^a   Berry, Kristi J ^a   Plaut, Roger D ^a   Wolf, Alex M ^a   Watkins, Kisha L ^a   Nierman, William C ^a   Hazen, Alyson ^a   Cline, Robin ^a   Redmond, Caroline ^b   Thwaite, Joanne E ^b   White, Owen ^a   Salzberg, Steven L ^a,g   Thomason, Brendan ⁱ   Friedlander, Arthur M ^j   Koehler, Theresa M ^k   Hanna, Philip C ⁱ   Kolstø, Anne Brit ^e,h   Fraser, Claire M ^a,c,d   more..

^a J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^f DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^g JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^j UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; DISEASE CONTROL; DNA SEQUENCES; GENES; PATHOLOGY;

ANTHRAX; PATHOGENS;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

HEMOLYSIN; IRON; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PHOSPHOLIPASE;

GENETICS;

AMES TEST; ANTHRAX; ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RNA, BACTERIAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; ANTHRAX; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS STR. AMES; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0038752613     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01586     Document Type: Article

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