Comparative genomics of the classical Bordetella subspecies: The evolution and exchange of virulence-associated diversity amongst closely related pathogens

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Park, Jihye ^a   Zhang, Ying ^a   Buboltz, Anne M ^a   Zhang, Xuqing ^a   Schuster, Stephan C ^a,d   Ahuja, Umesh ^b   Liu, Minghsun ^b   Miller, Jeff F ^b   Sebaihia, Mohammed ^c,e   Bentley, Stephen D ^c   Parkhill, Julian ^c   Harvill, Eric T ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^e HASSIBA BENBOUALI UNIVERSITY OF CHLEF   (Algeria)

Author keywords

Bordetella; Evolution; Genome; Horizontal gene transfer; Host adaptation; Pan genome; Pertussis toxin; SNP; Virulence

Indexed keywords

O ANTIGEN; PERTUSSIS TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEM; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BORDETELLA; BORDETELLA BRONCHISEPTICA; BORDETELLA PARAPERTUSSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONTENT; GENE LOCUS; GENE LOSS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOST RANGE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POINT MUTATION; PTL GENE; PTX GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BORDETELLA; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOMICS; HOST SPECIFICITY; HUMANS; O ANTIGENS; PERTUSSIS TOXIN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SHEEP; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS, BORDETELLA;

BORDETELLA; BORDETELLA PARAPERTUSSIS; OVIS;

EID: 84867191143     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-545     Document Type: Article

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