Host adaptation of Chlamydia pecorum towards low virulence evident in co-evolution of the ompA, incA, and ORF663 loci

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Mohamad, Khalil Yousef ^a,e   Kaltenboeck, Bernhard ^b   Rahman, Kh Shamsur ^b   Magnino, Simone ^c   Sachse, Konrad ^d   Rodolakis, Annie ^a  

^a UR1282   (France)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLA LOMBARDIA E DELL EMILIA ROMAGNA   (Italy)

^d FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^e University of Al Furat   (Syrian Arab Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BOVIDS; CHLAMYDIA PECORUM; CODING TANDEM REPEAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INCA GENE; KOALA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OMPA GENE; ORF663 GENE; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SWINE; TANDEM REPEAT; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; ANIMAL; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIASIS; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; INCA PROTEIN, BACTERIA; OMPA OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PHOSPHOPROTEIN;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; PHASCOLARCTIDAE; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SWINE; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84905393651     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0103615     Document Type: Article

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