Comparative genomics of koala, cattle and sheep strains of Chlamydia pecorum

BMC Genomics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Bachmann, Nathan L ^a   Fraser, Tamieka A ^b   Bertelli, Claire ^b,c,h   Jelocnik, Martina ^b   Gillett, Amber ^d   Funnell, Oliver ^e   Flanagan, Cheyne ^f   Myers, Garry S A ^g   Timms, Peter ^a,b   Polkinghorne, Adam ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^d Australia Zoo Queensland   (Australia)

^e Adelaide Hills Animal Hospital   (Australia)

^f Port Macquarie Koala Hospital   (Australia)

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

^h UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Chlamydia pecorum; Cytotoxin; Pseudogene; Single nucleotide polymorphism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CATTLE; CHLAMYDIA PECORUM; CHROMOSOME; CONJUNCTIVA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; KOALA; LIVESTOCK; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOGENE; SHEEP; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TOXA GENE; TOXB GENE; ANIMAL; BOVINAE; CHLAMYDIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; HOST RANGE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BOS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PECORUM; OVIS ARIES; PHASCOLARCTIDAE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CHLAMYDIA; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOMICS; HOST SPECIFICITY; PHASCOLARCTIDAE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PSEUDOGENES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHEEP;

EID: 84908072643     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-667     Document Type: Article

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