Comparative genomics reveals that a fish pathogenic bacterium Edwardsiella tarda has acquired the locus of enterocyte effacement (LEE) through horizontal gene transfer

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Nakamura, Yoji ^a   Takano, Tomokazu ^b   Yasuike, Motoshige ^a   Sakai, Takamitsu ^b   Matsuyama, Tomomasa ^b   Sano, Motohiko ^a,c  

^a FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^b FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGUILLA JAPONICA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDWARDSIELLA TARDA; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOUNDER; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INDEL MUTATION; INTROGRESSION; LOCUS OF ENTEROCYTE EFFACEMENT; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; SEA BREAM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM; TYPE VI SECRETION SYSTEM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; FISH; GENE ORDER; GENETICS; GENOMIC ISLAND; GENOMICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCIBILITY; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; ARCHOSARGUS RHOMBOIDALIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EDWARDSIELLA TARDA; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PISCES; PLEURONECTOIDEI;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EDWARDSIELLA TARDA; FISHES; GENE ORDER; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84884330457     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-642     Document Type: Article

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