Pan-genome analysis of the emerging foodborne pathogen Cronobacter spp. suggests a species-level bidirectional divergence driven by niche adaptation

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Grim, Christopher J ^a,b   Kotewicz, Michael L ^a   Power, Karen A ^c   Gopinath, Gopal ^a   Franco, Augusto A ^a   Jarvis, Karen G ^a   Yan, Qiong Q ^c   Jackson, Scott A ^a   Sathyamoorthy, Venugopal ^a   Hu, Lan ^a,b   Pagotto, Franco ^d   Iversen, Carol ^e   Lehner, Angelika ^f   Stephan, Roger ^f   Fanning, Séamus ^c   Tall, Ben D ^a  

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

^b OAK RIDGE INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE AND EDUCATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^d Centre de Recherches Sir FG Banting   (Canada)

^e NESTLÉ RESEARCH CENTER   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRONOBACTER; CRONOBACTER DUBLINENSIS; CRONOBACTER MALONATICUS; CRONOBACTER MUYTJENSII; CRONOBACTER SAKAZAKII; CRONOBACTER TURICENSIS; CRONOBACTER UNIVERSALIS; ENZYME DEGRADATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PROPHAGE; TAXONOMY; TRANSPOSON; TYPE VI SECRETION SYSTEM;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; CRONOBACTER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84878358647     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-366     Document Type: Article

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