Genomic analysis of 38 Legionella species identifies large and diverse effector repertoires

Nature Genetics

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 167-175

  Burstein, David ^a,c   Amaro, Francisco ^b,d   Zusman, Tal ^a   Lifshitz, Ziv ^a,e   Cohen, Ofir ^a,f   Gilbert, Jack A ^b   Pupko, Tal ^a   Shuman, Howard A ^b   Segal, Gil ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d St Louis University (Madrid Campus)   (Spain)

^e TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^f BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST; LEGIONELLA; MACHINE LEARNING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VALIDATION PROCESS; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, BACTERIAL; LEGIONELLA; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84961289935     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.3481     Document Type: Article

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