Genome reduction is associated with bacterial pathogenicity across different scales of temporal and ecological divergence
This study presents a systematic study of the claim that pathogenicity is associated with genome reduction and gene loss
Abstract
Emerging bacterial pathogens threaten global health and food security, and so it is important to ask whether these transitions to pathogenicity have any common features. We present a systematic study of the claim that pathogenicity is associated with genome reduction and gene loss.
This is a publication arising from the Zoonoses and Emerging Livestock Systems (ZELS) programme
Citation
Murray G, Charlesworth J, Miller E, Casey M, Lloyd C, Gottschalk M, Tucker A, Welch J, Weinert L (2021). Genome reduction is associated with bacterial pathogenicity across different scales of temporal and ecological divergence. Mol Biol Evol. 38:1570-1579.