Massive horizontal gene transfer, strictly vertical inheritance and ancient duplications differentially shape the evolution of Bacillus cereus enterotoxin operons hbl, cytK and nhe

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Böhm, Maria Elisabeth ^a   Huptas, Christopher ^a   Krey, Viktoria Magdalena ^a,b   Scherer, Siegfried ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b BCA clinic Betriebs GmbH and Co KG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Average nucleotide identity; Bacillus cereus sensu lato; cytK; Enterotoxin; Functional constraints of evolution; gene duplication; hbl; Horizontal gene transfer; nhe

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME; FITNESS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; GENOME; PATHOGEN; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENETICS; PLASMID; PROTEIN; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXIN; VIRULENCE;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ENTEROTOXIN; ENTEROTOXIN, BACILLUS CEREUS; HEMOLYSIN; HEMOLYSIN BL PROTEIN, BACILLUS; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

BACILLACEAE INFECTION; BACILLUS CEREUS; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; OPERON; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY;

BACILLACEAE INFECTIONS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ENTEROTOXINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84946838734     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12862-015-0529-4     Document Type: Article

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