common acestry and novel genetic traits of Francisella novicida-like isolates from North America and Australia as revealed by comparative genomic analyses

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 5110-5122

  Siddaramappa, Shivakumara ^a   Challacombe, Jean F ^a   Petersen, Jeannine M ^b   Pillai, Segaran ^c   Hogg, Geoff ^d   Kuske, Cheryl R ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c Chemical and Biological Division   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CAUSATIVE AGENTS; CLINICAL ISOLATES; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GENETIC TRAITS; GENOME SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYAMINES; PROTEIN-CODING GENES; PUTATIVE PROTEINS; TOXIN PRODUCTION;

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEINS; TOXIC MATERIALS;

GENES;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ANCESTRY; BACTERIUM; CATABOLISM; CHROMOSOME; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; GENOMICS; POLYSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN; TOXIN; TRANSLOCATION;

AUSTRALIA; NORTH AMERICA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FRANCISELLA; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS SUBSP. NOVICIDA;

ARSENIC; BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; GLUCURONIC ACID; LACTOSE; POLYAMINE; THIAMINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FRANCISELLA; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARSENIC; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; FRANCISELLA; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GLUCURONATES; LACTOSE; POLYAMINES; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; TEXAS; THIAMINE;

EID: 79961072848     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00337-11     Document Type: Article

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