High-throughput sequencing of Bacillus anthracis in France: Investigating genome diversity and population structure using whole-genome SNP discovery

BMC Genomics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Girault, Guillaume ^a   Blouin, Yann ^b   Vergnaud, Gilles ^b   Derzelle, Sylviane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST   (France)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY OF THE CELL I2BC   (France)

Author keywords

Bacillus anthracis; Comparative genomics; HRM; Molecular typing; Single nucleotide polymorphism; Whole genome sequencing

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRANCE; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MOLECULAR TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; FRANCE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84899493238     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-288     Document Type: Article

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