A rickettsia genome overrun by mobile genetic elements provides insight into the acquisition of genes characteristic of an obligate intracellular lifestyle

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 194, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 376-394

  Gillespie, Joseph J ^a,b   Joardar, Vinita ^c   Williams, Kelly P ^a,d   Driscoll, Timothy ^a   Hostetler, Jessica B ^e   Nordberg, Eric ^a   Shukla, Maulik ^a   Walenz, Brian ^c   Hill, Catherine A ^f   Nene, Vishvanath M ^b,g   Azad, Abdu F ^b   Sobral, Bruno W ^a   Caler, Elisabet ^c  

^a VIRGINIA BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United States)

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

^c J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^e WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^f PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSPOSASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHROMOSOME SIZE; ENDOSYMBIONT; GENE POOL; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME SIZE; IXODES SCAPULARIS; LYME DISEASE; MOBILE GENETIC ELEMENT; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; PATHOGENESIS; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA ENDOSYMBIONT OF IXODES SCAPULARIS; RICKETTSIALES AMPLIFIED GENETIC ELEMENT; SCRUB TYPHUS; SYNTENY;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; IXODES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; RICKETTSIA; SYMBIOSIS;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); IXODES DAMMINI; IXODES SCAPULARIS; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA BELLII; RICKETTSIA MASSILIAE; RICKETTSIACEAE; RICKETTSIALES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84855869150     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.06244-11     Document Type: Article

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