Genome characterisation of the genus Francisella reveals insight into similar evolutionary paths in pathogens of mammals and fish

Common Ancestry and Novel Genetic Traits of Francisella novicida-Like Isolates from North America and Australia as Revealed by Comparative Genomic Analyses

(2011) Shivakumara Siddaramappa et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Multiple-locus, variable number of tandem repeat analysis (MLVA) of the fish-pathogen Francisella noatunensis

(2011) Øyvind J Brevik et al.   BMC Veterinary Research

Francisella infections in fish and shellfish

(2011) T H Birkbeck et al.   JOURNAL OF FISH DISEASES

Genomes of the Most Dangerous Epidemic Bacteria Have a Virulence Repertoire Characterized by Fewer Genes but More Toxin-Antitoxin Modules

(2011) Kalliopi Georgiades et al.   PLoS One

Virulence Evolution of the Human Pathogen Neisseria meningitidis by Recombination in the Core and Accessory Genome

(2011) Biju Joseph et al.   PLoS One

Understanding the evolutionary relationships and major traits of Bacillus through comparative genomics

(2010) Luis Alcaraz et al.   BMC GENOMICS

ISPsa2, the first mobile genetic element to be described and characterized in the bacterial facultative intracellular pathogen Piscirickettsia salmonis

(2010) Sergio H. Marshall et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

Evolutionary Dynamics of Complete Campylobacter Pan-Genomes and the Bacterial Species Concept

(2010) Tristan Lefébure et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Objections to the transfer of Francisella novicida to the subspecies rank of Francisella tularensis

(2010) A. Johansson et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Detection of a Novel Subspecies of Francisella noatunensis as Endosymbiont of the Ciliate Euplotes raikovi

(2010) Martina Schrallhammer et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

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

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

Impact of recombination on bacterial evolution

(2010) Xavier Didelot et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Improved data retrieval from TreeBASE via taxonomic and linguistic data enrichment

(2009) Nadia Anwar et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Description of Francisella hispaniensis sp. nov., isolated from human blood, reclassification of Francisella novicida (Larson et al. 1955) Olsufiev et al. 1959 as Francisella tularensis subsp. novicida comb. nov. and emended description of the genus Francisella

(2009) B. Huber et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Elevation ofFrancisella philomiragiasubsp.noatunensisMikalsenet al.(2007) toFrancisella noatunensiscomb. nov. [syn.Francisella piscicidaOttemet al.(2008) syn. nov.] and characterization ofFrancisella noatunensissubsp. orientalissubsp. nov., two important fish pathogens

(2009) K.F. Ottem et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Diversity of Francisella Species in Environmental Samples from Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts

(2009) Zenda L. Berrada et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

A Flood of Microbial Genomes–Do We Need More?

(2009) Niyaz Ahmed   PLoS One

Pebble and Rock Band: Heuristic Resolution of Repeats and Scaffolding in the Velvet Short-Read de Novo Assembler

(2009) Daniel R. Zerbino et al.   PLoS One

Shifting the genomic gold standard for the prokaryotic species definition

(2009) Michael Richter et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Comparative Genomic Characterization of Francisella tularensis Strains Belonging to Low and High Virulence Subspecies

(2009) Mia D. Champion et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Molecular Evolutionary Consequences of Niche Restriction in Francisella tularensis, a Facultative Intracellular Pathogen

(2009) Pär Larsson et al.   PLoS Pathogens

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

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

Molecular Method for Discrimination between Francisella tularensis and Francisella-Like Endosymbionts

(2008) R. Escudero et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Isolation and Characterization of a Novel Francisella sp. from Human Cerebrospinal Fluid and Blood

(2008) K. J. Kugeler et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

The Ribosomal Database Project: improved alignments and new tools for rRNA analysis

(2008) J. R. Cole et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

ANTHRAX INVESTIGATION: Full-Genome Sequencing Paved the Way From Spores to a Suspect

(2008) M. Enserink   SCIENCE