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RAxML version 8: a tool for phylogenetic analysis and post-analysis of large phylogenies

(2014) Alexandros Stamatakis   BIOINFORMATICS

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A Reference Pan-Genome Approach to Comparative Bacterial Genomics: Identification of Novel Epidemiological Markers in Pathogenic Campylobacter

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(2013) Kees van Frankenhuyzen   JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY

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Mining New Crystal Protein Genes from Bacillus thuringiensis on the Basis of Mixed Plasmid-Enriched Genome Sequencing and a Computational Pipeline

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Survival and Germination of Bacillus cereus Spores without Outgrowth or Enterotoxin Production duringIn VitroSimulation of Gastrointestinal Transit

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Complete Genome Sequence of Bacillus cereus NC7401, Which Produces High Levels of the Emetic Toxin Cereulide

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A Gene-By-Gene Approach to Bacterial Population Genomics: Whole Genome MLST of Campylobacter

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BIGSdb: Scalable analysis of bacterial genome variation at the population level

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Bacillus cereus G9241 Makes Anthrax Toxin and Capsule like Highly Virulent B. anthracis Ames but Behaves like Attenuated Toxigenic Nonencapsulated B. anthracis Sterne in Rabbits and Mice

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Bacillus thuringiensis: A story of a successful bioinsecticide

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Complete Genome Sequence of Bacillus thuringiensis Serovar finitimus Strain YBT-020

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Detection of New cry Genes of Bacillus thuringiensis by Use of a Novel PCR Primer System

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(2010) Johannes M Freudenberg et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

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(2010) Nicolas J. Tourasse et al.   FOOD MICROBIOLOGY

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Ability of Bacillus cereus Group Strains To Cause Food Poisoning Varies According to Phylogenetic Affiliation (Groups I to VII) Rather than Species Affiliation

(2010) M.-H. Guinebretiere et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Bacillus thuringiensis: an impotent pathogen?

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Environmental Factors Determining the Epidemiology and Population Genetic Structure of the Bacillus cereus Group in the Field

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Distribution, Diversity, and Potential Mobility of Extrachromosomal Elements Related to the Bacillus anthracis pXO1 and pXO2 Virulence Plasmids

(2009) X. Hu et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

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(2009) Kees van Frankenhuyzen   JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY

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(2009) Paul Keim et al.   MOLECULAR ASPECTS OF MEDICINE

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(2009) Paul S. Keim et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

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(2009) Xavier Didelot et al.   SYSTEMATIC AND APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

The RAST Server: Rapid Annotations using Subsystems Technology

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(2008) D. R. Zerbino et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Transcriptional analysis of the conjugative plasmid pAW63 from Bacillus thuringiensis

(2008) Géraldine Van der Auwera et al.   PLASMID

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(2007) Marie-Hélène Guinebretière et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY