Complete genome sequence of francisella tularensis subspecies holarctica FTNF002-00

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Barabote, Ravi D ^a,b   Xie, Gary ^a,b   Brettin, Thomas S ^a,b   Hinrichs, Steven H ^c   Fey, Paul D ^c   Jay, Justin J ^d   Engle, Jeniffer L ^d   Godbole, Shubhada D ^e   Noronha, Jyothi M ^e   Scheuermann, Richard H ^e   Zhou, Liwel W ^f   Lion, Christine ^g   Dempsey, Michael P ^d  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NANCY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS HOLARTICA; GENE DELETION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PSEUDOGENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHROMOSOME MAP; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TULAREMIA; VIRULENCE;

FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS;

BACTERIAL DNA;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA, BACTERIAL; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GENE DELETION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TULAREMIA; VIRULENCE;

EID: 70349506110     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007041     Document Type: Article

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