Plasmid diversity and phylogenetic consistency in the Lyme disease agent Borrelia burgdorferi
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- 作者：Sherwood R. Casjens ; Eddie B. Gilcrease ; Marija Vujadinovic…
- 关键词：B. burgdorferi ; Plasmid ; Linear plasmid ; Genome rearrangement
- 刊名：BMC Genomics
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：December 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：18
- 期：1
- 全文大小：1509KB
- 刊物主题：Life Sciences, general; Microarrays; Proteomics; Animal Genetics and Genomics; Microbial Genetics and Genomics; Plant Genetics & Genomics;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1471-2164
- 卷排序：18
文摘
BackgroundBacteria from the genus Borrelia are known to harbor numerous linear and circular plasmids. We report here a comparative analysis of the nucleotide sequences of 236 plasmids present in fourteen independent isolates of the Lyme disease agent B. burgdorferi.