Recovery of a medieval Brucella melitensis genome using shotgun metagenomics

mBio

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Kay, Gemma L ^a   Sergeant, Martin J ^a   Giuffra, Valentina ^b,c   Bandiera, Pasquale ^c   Milanese, Marco ^c   Bramanti, Barbara ^d   Bianucci, Raffaella ^d,e,f   Pallen, Mark J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^f AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; METAGENOMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; PROCEDURES;

BRUCELLA MELITENSIS;

BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; METAGENOMICS;

EID: 84908294283     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.01337-14     Document Type: Article

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