Two new complete genome sequences offer insight into host and tissue specificity of plant pathogenic Xanthomonas spp.

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 193, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 5450-5464

  Bogdanove, Adam J ^a   Koebnik, Ralf ^b   Lu, Hong ^a   Furutani, Ayako ^c,d   Angiuoli, Samuel V ^e   Patil, Prabhu B ^f   Van Sluys, Marie Anne ^g,h   Ryan, Robert P ⁱ   Meyer, Damien F ^a,j   Han, Sang Wook ^k   Aparna, Gudlur ^l,m   Rajaram, Misha ^n,o   Delcher, Arthur L ^e,ab   Phillippy, Adam M ^e,p   Puiu, Daniela ^e   Schatz, Michael C ^e,q   Shumway, Martin ^r   Sommer, Daniel D ^e   Trapnell, Cole ^a,s   Benahmed, Faiza ^t,u   Dimitrov, George ^t   Madupu, Ramana ^t   Radune, Diana ^t   Sullivan, Steven ^t,v   Jha, Gopaljee ^l,w   Ishihara, Hiromichi ^g,x   Lee, Sang Won ^k,y   Pandey, Alok ^l   Sharma, Vikas ^f   Sriariyanun, Malinee ^k   Szurek, Boris ^b   Vera Cruz, Casiana M ^z   Dorman, Karin S ⁿ   Ronald, Pamela C ^k   Verdier, Valérie ^b   Dow, J Maxwell ⁱ   Sonti, Ramesh V ^l   Tsuge, Seiji ^aa   Brendel, Volker P ^a,n   Rabinowicz, Pablo D ^t,ab   Leach, Jan E ^g   White, Frank F ^ac   Salzberg, Steven L ^e,ad   more..

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^d IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e Bldg 142   (United States)

^f INSTITUTE OF MICROBIAL TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^g Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^j CIRAD   (France)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^l CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (India)

^m LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁿ Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^p National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center   (United States)

^q Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^r NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^s Harvard University   (United States)

^t J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^u CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^v NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^w NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

^x OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^y Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

^z INTERNATIONAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Philippines)

^aa KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^ab UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^ac KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ad JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC GMP; DNA POLYMERASE; GENOMIC DNA; PLASMID DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MESOPHYLL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PATHOGENICITY; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT PATHOGEN INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM; RICE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TOMATO; XANTHOMONAS;

ARABIDOPSIS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORYZA SATIVA; XANTHOMONAS;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; XANTHOMONAS; XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS PV. RAPHANI; XANTHOMONAS ORYZAE PV. ORYZICOLA;

EID: 80053582792     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.05262-11     Document Type: Article

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