Inter- and intra-specific pan-genomes of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato: Genome stability and adaptive radiation

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Mongodin, Emmanuel F ^a   Casjens, Sherwood R ^b   Bruno, John F ^c   Xu, Yun ^c   Drabek, Elliott F ^a   Riley, David R ^a   Cantarel, Brandi L ^a   Pagan, Pedro E ^d   Hernandez, Yozen A ^d   Vargas, Levy C ^d   Dunn, John J ^e   Schutzer, Steven E ^f   Fraser, Claire M ^a   Qiu, Wei Gang ^d   Luft, Benjamin J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^e BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi; Genome evolution simulation; Lyme borreliosis; Pan genome; Phylogenetic tree; Single nucleotide polymorphisms

Indexed keywords

LIPOPROTEIN;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BAVARIENSIS; BORRELIA BISSETTII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA FINLANDENSIS; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA SPIELMANII; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; EUROPE; GENETIC LINE; GENOME SIZE; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; GENOMICS; INTER SPECIFIC PAN GENOME; INTRA SPECIFIC PAN GENOME; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION SIZE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; UNITED STATES; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HUMAN; LYME DISEASE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLASMID; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; SPIROCHAETALES;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; MODELS, GENETIC; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLASMIDS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84885115913     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-693     Document Type: Article

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