Rapid Evolution of the Sequences and Gene Repertoires of Secreted Proteins in Bacteria

The Infinitely Many Genes Model for the Distributed Genome of Bacteria

(2012) Franz Baumdicker et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

After the bottleneck: Genome-wide diversification of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex by mutation, recombination, and natural selection

(2012) A. Namouchi et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Testing the Infinitely Many Genes Model for the Evolution of the Bacterial Core Genome and Pangenome

(2012) R. Eric Collins et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Repeatability and Contingency in the Evolution of a Key Innovation in Phage Lambda

(2012) J. R. Meyer et al.   SCIENCE

Population Genomics of the Facultatively Mutualistic Bacteria Sinorhizobium meliloti and S. medicae

(2012) Brendan Epstein et al.   PLoS Genetics

Host-parasite coevolutionary arms races give way to fluctuating selection

(2011) Alex R. Hall et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

VFDB 2012 update: toward the genetic diversity and molecular evolution of bacterial virulence factors

(2011) L. Chen et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Selfish genetic elements, genetic conflict, and evolutionary innovation

(2011) J. H. Werren   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rapid Pneumococcal Evolution in Response to Clinical Interventions

(2011) N. J. Croucher et al.   SCIENCE

Are pathogenic bacteria just looking for food? Metabolism and microbial pathogenesis

(2011) Laurence Rohmer et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

The Cost of Virulence: Retarded Growth of Salmonella Typhimurium Cells Expressing Type III Secretion System 1

(2011) Alexander Sturm et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Diversity of 16S rRNA Genes within Individual Prokaryotic Genomes

(2010) A. Y. Pei et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

PSORTb 3.0: improved protein subcellular localization prediction with refined localization subcategories and predictive capabilities for all prokaryotes

(2010) Nancy Y. Yu et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Comprehensive in silico prediction and analysis of chlamydial outer membrane proteins reflects evolution and life style of the Chlamydiae

(2010) Eva Heinz et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Evolutionary conservation of essential and highly expressed genes in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

(2010) Andreas Dotsch et al.   BMC GENOMICS

HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER AND THE EVOLUTION OF BACTERIAL COOPERATION

(2010) Sorcha E. Mc Ginty et al.   EVOLUTION

Economical Evolution: Microbes Reduce the Synthetic Cost of Extracellular Proteins

(2010) D. R. Smith et al.   mBio

Horizontal Gene Transfer of the Secretome Drives the Evolution of Bacterial Cooperation and Virulence

(2009) Teresa Nogueira et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The Association of Virulence Factors with Genomic Islands

(2009) Shannan J. Ho Sui et al.   PLoS One

Organised Genome Dynamics in the Escherichia coli Species Results in Highly Diverse Adaptive Paths

(2009) Marie Touchon et al.   PLoS Genetics

Protein evolution in deep sea bacteria: an analysis of amino acids substitution rates

(2008) Stefano Campanaro et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

A Social Life for Discerning Microbes

(2008) Sam P. Brown et al.   CELL

Evolution of prokaryotic and eukaryotic virulence effectors

(2008) Wenbo Ma et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY