Reassessment of the Listeria monocytogenes pan-genome reveals dynamic integration hotspots and mobile genetic elements as major components of the accessory genome

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Kuenne, Carsten ^a   Billion, André ^a   Mraheil, Mobarak Abu ^a   Strittmatter, Axel ^b   Daniel, Rolf ^b   Goesmann, Alexander ^c   Barbuddhe, Sukhadeo ^d   Hain, Torsten ^a   Chakraborty, Trinad ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d ICAR RESEARCH COMPLEX FOR GOA   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GALLERIA MELLONELLA; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC STABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMIC ISLAND; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PROPHAGE; SEROTYPE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRANSPOSON;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; GENOMICS; HUMANS; INTERNET; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; INVERTED REPEAT SEQUENCES; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; PROPHAGES; RABBITS; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

GALLERIA MELLONELLA; HEXAPODA; LISTERIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 84872467231     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-47     Document Type: Article

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