A Rickettsia Genome Overrun by Mobile Genetic Elements Provides Insight into the Acquisition of Genes Characteristic of an Obligate Intracellular Lifestyle

Infection and Co-infection Rates of Anaplasma phagocytophilum Variants, Babesia spp., Borrelia burgdorferi, and the Rickettsial Endosymbiont in Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) from Sites in Indiana, Maine, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin

(2015) F. E. Steiner et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY

PATRIC: the Comprehensive Bacterial Bioinformatics Resource with a Focus on Human Pathogenic Species

(2011) Joseph J. Gillespie et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Wide Dispersal and Possible Multiple Origins of Low-Copy-Number Plasmids in Rickettsia Species Associated with Blood-Feeding Arthropods

(2010) G. D. Baldridge et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Defining a Core Set of Actin Cytoskeletal Proteins Critical for Actin-Based Motility of Rickettsia

(2010) Alisa W. Serio et al.   Cell Host & Microbe

Phylogenomics Reveals a Diverse Rickettsiales Type IV Secretion System

(2010) J. J. Gillespie et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Rickettsia prowazekii Uses an sn-Glycerol-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase and a Novel Dihydroxyacetone Phosphate Transport System To Supply Triose Phosphate for Phospholipid Biosynthesis

(2010) K. M. Frohlich et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Phylogeny of Gammaproteobacteria

(2010) K. P. Williams et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Rickettsia Sca2 is a bacterial formin-like mediator of actin-based motility

(2010) Cat M. Haglund et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Biotin synthesis begins by hijacking the fatty acid synthetic pathway

(2010) Steven Lin et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

FastTree 2 – Approximately Maximum-Likelihood Trees for Large Alignments

(2010) Morgan N. Price et al.   PLoS One

progressiveMauve: Multiple Genome Alignment with Gene Gain, Loss and Rearrangement

(2010) Aaron E. Darling et al.   PLoS One

Variations on the tmRNA gene

(2010) Chunhong Mao et al.   RNA Biology

Complete genome sequence of Haliangium ochraceum type strain (SMP-2T)

(2010) Natalia Ivanova et al.   Standards in Genomic Sciences

New Assembly, Reannotation and Analysis of the Entamoeba histolytica Genome Reveal New Genomic Features and Protein Content Information

(2010) Hernan A. Lorenzi et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Evolution and diversity of Rickettsia bacteria

(2009) Lucy A Weinert et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Analysis of the Rickettsia africae genome reveals that virulence acquisition in Rickettsia species may be explained by genome reduction

(2009) Pierre-Edouard Fournier et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Extraordinarily widespread and fantastically complex: comparative biology of endosymbiotic bacterial and fungal mutualists of insects

(2009) Cara M. Gibson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The Genome of the Amoeba Symbiont "Candidatus Amoebophilus asiaticus" Reveals Common Mechanisms for Host Cell Interaction among Amoeba-Associated Bacteria

(2009) S. Schmitz-Esser et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Extensive genomic diversity of closely related Wolbachia strains

(2009) N. Ishmael et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

The Pfam protein families database

(2009) Robert D. Finn et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

FIGfams: yet another set of protein families

(2009) Folker Meyer et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

An Anomalous Type IV Secretion System in Rickettsia Is Evolutionarily Conserved

(2009) Joseph J. Gillespie et al.   PLoS One

Genome Sequence of the Endosymbiont Rickettsia peacockii and Comparison with Virulent Rickettsia rickettsii: Identification of Virulence Factors

(2009) Roderick F. Felsheim et al.   PLoS One

Conjugation genes are common throughout the genus Rickettsia and are transmitted horizontally

(2009) L. A. Weinert et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Effects of Antibiotics and a Proto-Oncogene Homolog on Destruction of Protein Translocator SecY

(2009) J. van Stelten et al.   SCIENCE

Genomic islands are dynamic, ancient integrative elements in bacterial evolution

(2009) E. Fidelma Boyd et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Genomics and Evolution of Heritable Bacterial Symbionts

(2008) Nancy A. Moran et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Evolution of Intracellular Pathogens

(2008) Arturo Casadevall   Annual Review of Microbiology

Ins and Outs of Major Facilitator Superfamily Antiporters

(2008) Christopher J. Law et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

Highly plastic genome of Microcystis aeruginosa PCC 7806, a ubiquitous toxic freshwater cyanobacterium

(2008) Lionel Frangeul et al.   BMC GENOMICS

The RAST Server: Rapid Annotations using Subsystems Technology

(2008) Ramy K Aziz et al.   BMC GENOMICS

The Whole-genome Sequencing of the Obligate Intracellular Bacterium Orientia tsutsugamushi Revealed Massive Gene Amplification During Reductive Genome Evolution

(2008) K. Nakayama et al.   DNA RESEARCH

Back to the future: the new ICE age

(2008) Gordon Churchward   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Rickettsia Phylogenomics: Unwinding the Intricacies of Obligate Intracellular Life

(2008) Joseph J. Gillespie et al.   PLoS One

RickA Expression Is Not Sufficient to Promote Actin-Based Motility of Rickettsia raoultii

(2008) Premanand Balraj et al.   PLoS One

Graph Clustering Via a Discrete Uncoupling Process

(2008) Stijn Van Dongen   SIAM JOURNAL ON MATRIX ANALYSIS AND APPLICATIONS

Louse- and flea-borne rickettsioses: biological and genomic analyses

(2008) Joseph J. Gillespie et al.   VETERINARY RESEARCH

Visualization of pseudogenes in intracellular bacteria reveals the different tracks to gene destruction

(2008) Hans-Henrik Fuxelius et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY