Genomic signatures of strain selection and enhancement in Bacillus atrophaeus var. globigii, a historical biowarfare simulant

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Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Gibbons, Henry S ^a   Broomall, Stacey M ^a   McNew, Lauren A ^a,b   Daligault, Hajnalka ^j   Chapman, Carol ^g   Bruce, David ^j   Karavis, Mark ^a   Krepps, Michael ^a,k   McGregor, Paul A ^a,c   Hong, Charles ^a,h   Park, Kyong H ^a   Akmal, Arya ^g   Feldman, Andrew ^d   Lin, Jeffrey S ^d   Chang, Wenling E ⁱ   Higgs, Brandon W ⁱ   Demirev, Plamen ^d   Lindquist, John ^e   Liem, Alvin ^a,f   Fochler, Ed ^a,f   Read, Timothy D ^g,l   Tapia, Roxanne ^j   Johnson, Shannon ^j   Bishop Lilly, Kimberly A ^g   Detter, Chris ^j   Han, Cliff ^j   Sozhamannan, Shanmuga ^g   Rosenzweig, C Nicole ^a   Skowronski, Evan W ^a,m   more..

^a EDGEWOOD CHEMICAL BIOLOGICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^f OptiMetrics Inc   (United States)

^g NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^h DEFENSE THREAT REDUCTION AGENCY   (United States)

ⁱ MITRE CORPORATION   (United States)

^j LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^k EXCET INC   (United States)

^l EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^m Operational Surveyors   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACILLUS ATROPHAEUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; COLONY FORMATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SIMULATION; SPOROGENESIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; ALLELE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL SPORE; BASE PAIRING; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE AGENT; BIOLOGY; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE DELETION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; INDEL MUTATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METABOLOME; METHODOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); BACILLUS ATROPHAEUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

CATALASE;

ALLELES; BACILLUS; BASE PAIRING; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE AGENTS; CATALASE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; INDEL MUTATION; METABOLOME; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

EID: 79953037918     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017836     Document Type: Article

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