Large direct repeats flank genomic rearrangements between a new clinical isolate of Francisella tularensis subsp. tularensis A1 and schu S4

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Nalbantoglu, Ufuk ^b   Sayood, Khalid ^b   Dempsey, Michael P ^e   Iwen, Peter C ^a   Francesconi, Stephen C ^f   Barabote, Ravi D ^c,d   Xie, Gary ^c,d   Brettin, Thomas S ^g   Hinrichs, Steven H ^a   Fey, Paul D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^f NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^g OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; GENE LOSS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; INDEL MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; POPULATION; PRESSURE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUBSPECIES; SYNTENY; TANDEM REPEAT; UNITED STATES; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PATHOGENICITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSPOSON; TULAREMIA; VIRULENCE;

FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS SUBSP. TULARENSIS;

DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TULAREMIA; VIRULENCE;

EID: 77949389165     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009007     Document Type: Article

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