Comparative Genomics of 12 Strains of Erwinia amylovora Identifies a Pan-Genome with a Large Conserved Core

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Mann, Rachel A ^a,b,c,d   Smits, Theo H M ^e   Bühlmann, Andreas ^e   Blom, Jochen ^f   Goesmann, Alexander ^f   Frey, Jürg E ^e   Plummer, Kim M ^a,b   Beer, Steven V ^c   Luck, Joanne ^a,d   Duffy, Brion ^e   Rodoni, Brendan ^a,d  

^a Cooperative Research Centre for National Plant Biosecurity ^*  (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^d DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^e AGROSCOPE   (Switzerland)

^f BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CARBON UTILIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; ERWINIA AMYLOVORA; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMIC ISLAND; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY;

DNA, BACTERIAL; ERWINIA AMYLOVORA; GENOME, BACTERIAL; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84873608021     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055644     Document Type: Article

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