Modular Evolution of TnGBSs, a New Family of Integrative and Conjugative Elements Associating Insertion Sequence Transposition, Plasmid Replication, and Conjugation for Their Spreading

Comparative genomics and the role of lateral gene transfer in the evolution of bovine adapted Streptococcus agalactiae

(2011) Vincent P. Richards et al.   INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Streptococcus pyogenes antigen I/II-family polypeptide AspA shows differential ligand-binding properties and mediates biofilm formation

(2011) Sarah E. Maddocks et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

PHAST: A Fast Phage Search Tool

(2011) Y. Zhou et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Efficient Gene Transfer in Bacterial Cell Chains

(2011) A. Babic et al.   mBio

The Repertoire of ICE in Prokaryotes Underscores the Unity, Diversity, and Ubiquity of Conjugation

(2011) Julien Guglielmini et al.   PLoS Genetics

Microreview: Type IV secretion systems: versatility and diversity in function

(2010) Karin Wallden et al.   CELLULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Origins and Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance

(2010) J. Davies et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

The changing faces of Streptococcus antigen I/II polypeptide family adhesins

(2010) L. Jeannine Brady et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Integrative and conjugative elements: mosaic mobile genetic elements enabling dynamic lateral gene flow

(2010) Rachel A. F. Wozniak et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Plasmid pSM19035, a model to study stable maintenance in Firmicutes

(2010) Virginia S. Lioy et al.   PLASMID

Mechanism of chromosomal transfer of Enterococcus faecalis pathogenicity island, capsule, antimicrobial resistance, and other traits

(2010) J. M. Manson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Emergence and Global Dissemination of Host-Specific Streptococcus agalactiae Clones

(2010) U. B. S. Sorensen et al.   mBio

Identification of a Novel Variant of Staphylococcal Cassette Chromosome mec, Type II.5, and Its Truncated Form by Insertion of Putative Conjugative Transposon Tn6012

(2009) X. Han et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Integrative and Sequence Characteristics of a Novel Genetic Element, ICE6013, in Staphylococcus aureus

(2009) D. S. Smyth et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

A classification system for plasmids from enterococci and other Gram-positive bacteria

(2009) L.B. Jensen et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGICAL METHODS

Autonomous plasmid-like replication ofBacillusICEBs1: a general feature of integrative conjugative elements?

(2009) Elisabeth Grohmann   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Autonomous plasmid-like replication of a conjugative transposon

(2009) Catherine A. Lee et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

The replicons of Gram-positive bacteria: A family of broadly distributed but narrow host range plasmids

(2009) Keith E. Weaver et al.   PLASMID

Comparative ICE Genomics: Insights into the Evolution of the SXT/R391 Family of ICEs

(2009) Rachel A. F. Wozniak et al.   PLoS Genetics

Role of Intraspecies Recombination in the Spread of Pathogenicity Islands within the Escherichia coli Species

(2009) Sören Schubert et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Isolation of VanB-Type Enterococcus faecalis Strains from Nosocomial Infections: First Report of the Isolation and Identification of the Pheromone-Responsive Plasmids pMG2200, Encoding VanB-Type Vancomycin Resistance and a Bac41-Type Bacteriocin, and pMG2201, Encoding Erythromycin Resistance and Cytolysin (Hly/Bac)

(2008) B. Zheng et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

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

Velvet: Algorithms for de novo short read assembly using de Bruijn graphs

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

Atypical association of DDE transposition with conjugation specifies a new family of mobile elements

(2008) Mathieu Brochet et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Phylogeny.fr: robust phylogenetic analysis for the non-specialist

(2008) A. Dereeper et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Shaping a bacterial genome by large chromosomal replacements, the evolutionary history of Streptococcus agalactiae

(2008) M. Brochet et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA