Origin and Evolution of Rickettsial Plasmids

Genomes in turmoil: quantification of genome dynamics in prokaryote supergenomes

(2014) Pere Puigbò et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Rhizobial plasmid pLPU83a is able to switch between different transfer machineries depending on its genomic background

(2014) Gonzalo Torres Tejerizo et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Supertrees Based on the Subtree Prune-and-Regraft Distance

(2014) Christopher Whidden et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Genome reduction as the dominant mode of evolution

(2013) Yuri I. Wolf et al.   BIOESSAYS

Evolution and dynamics of megaplasmids with genome sizes larger than 100 kb in the Bacillus cereus group

(2013) Jinshui Zheng et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Update on Tick-Borne Rickettsioses around the World: a Geographic Approach

(2013) P. Parola et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY REVIEWS

Recent molecular insights into rickettsial pathogenesis and immunity

(2013) Sanjeev K Sahni et al.   Future Microbiology

Bacterial DNA Sifted from the Trichoplax adhaerens (Animalia: Placozoa) Genome Project Reveals a Putative Rickettsial Endosymbiont

(2013) Timothy Driscoll et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Lateral transfers of insertion sequences between Wolbachia, Cardinium and Rickettsia bacterial endosymbionts

(2013) O Duron   HEREDITY

MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0

(2013) Koichiro Tamura et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Rickettsia typhi Possesses Phospholipase A2 Enzymes that Are Involved in Infection of Host Cells

(2013) M. Sayeedur Rahman et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Detection of Established Virulence Genes and Plasmids To Differentiate Borrelia burgdorferi Strains

(2012) Kamfai Chan et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Inheritance of the Salmonella virulence plasmids: Mostly vertical and rarely horizontal

(2012) Ye Feng et al.   INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Establishment of a Replicating Plasmid in Rickettsia prowazekii

(2012) David O. Wood et al.   PLoS One

Large-Scale Analysis of Plasmid Relationships through Gene-Sharing Networks

(2011) M. Tamminen et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The evolutionary origin of orphan genes

(2011) Diethard Tautz et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Development of Shuttle Vectors for Transformation of Diverse Rickettsia Species

(2011) Nicole Y. Burkhardt et al.   PLoS One

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

Composition bias and the origin of ORFan genes

(2010) Inbal Yomtovian et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

genoPlotR: comparative gene and genome visualization in R

(2010) L. Guy et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

A low-polynomial algorithm for assembling clusters of orthologous groups from intergenomic symmetric best matches

(2010) David M. Kristensen et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Rickettsial evolution in the light of comparative genomics

(2010) Vicky Merhej et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Genomic, proteomic, and transcriptomic analysis of virulent and avirulent Rickettsia prowazekii reveals its adaptive mutation capabilities

(2010) Y. Bechah et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Mobility of Plasmids

(2010) C. Smillie et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Networks of Gene Sharing among 329 Proteobacterial Genomes Reveal Differences in Lateral Gene Transfer Frequency at Different Phylogenetic Depths

(2010) T. Kloesges et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The dynamic genome of Hydra

(2010) Jarrod A. Chapman et al.   NATURE

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

Intraspecies Diversity ofRickettsia conorii

(2009) Pierre‐Edouard Fournier et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Pathogenomics of the Virulence Plasmids of Escherichia coli

(2009) T. J. Johnson et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

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

Network analyses structure genetic diversity in independent genetic worlds

(2009) S. Halary et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Variations of Plasmid Content in Rickettsia felis

(2008) Pierre-Edouard Fournier et al.   PLoS One