Genomic Signatures of Distributive Conjugal Transfer among Mycobacteria

Heterogeneity in the Frequency and Characteristics of Homologous Recombination in Pneumococcal Evolution

(2014) Rafal Mostowy et al.   PLoS Genetics

The MaSuRCA genome assembler

(2013) Aleksey V. Zimin et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Recent Recombination Events in the Core Genome Are Associated with Adaptive Evolution in Enterococcus faecium

(2013) Mark de Been et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

The Evolutionary Path to Extraintestinal Pathogenic, Drug-Resistant Escherichia coli Is Marked by Drastic Reduction in Detectable Recombination within the Core Genome

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Out-of-Africa migration and Neolithic coexpansion of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with modern humans

(2013) Iñaki Comas et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Genomic analysis of smooth tubercle bacilli provides insights into ancestry and pathoadaptation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

(2013) Philip Supply et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Emergence of Epidemic Multidrug-Resistant Enterococcus faecium from Animal and Commensal Strains

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Horizontal Gene Transfer Can Rescue Prokaryotes from Muller’s Ratchet: Benefit of DNA from Dead Cells and Population Subdivision

(2013) Nobuto Takeuchi et al.   G3-Genes Genomes Genetics

Distributive Conjugal Transfer in Mycobacteria Generates Progeny with Meiotic-Like Genome-Wide Mosaicism, Allowing Mapping of a Mating Identity Locus

(2013) Todd A. Gray et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

The Role of Selection in Shaping Diversity of Natural M. tuberculosis Populations

(2013) Caitlin S. Pepperell et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Zoonotic simian foamy virus in Bangladesh reflects diverse patterns of transmission and co-infection

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Genome-Wide Survey of Mutual Homologous Recombination in a Highly Sexual Bacterial Species

(2012) Koji Yahara 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

Restricted Gene Flow among Hospital Subpopulations of Enterococcus faecium

(2012) R. J. L. Willems et al.   mBio

Phylogeographic variation in recombination rates within a global clone of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

(2012) Santiago Castillo-Ramírez et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

High-throughput single-cell sequencing identifies photoheterotrophs and chemoautotrophs in freshwater bacterioplankton

(2011) Manuel Martinez-Garcia et al.   ISME Journal

A framework for variation discovery and genotyping using next-generation DNA sequencing data

(2011) Mark A DePristo et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Detection of recombination events in bacterial genomes from large population samples

(2011) Pekka Marttinen et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Rapid Pneumococcal Evolution in Response to Clinical Interventions

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

Clinical characteristics of the smooth tubercle bacilli ‘Mycobacterium canettii’ infection suggest the existence of an environmental reservoir

(2010) J.-L. Koeck et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Inference of Homologous Recombination in Bacteria Using Whole-Genome Sequences

(2010) X. Didelot et al.   GENETICS

Mycobacterial Biofilms Facilitate Horizontal DNA Transfer between Strains of Mycobacterium smegmatis

(2010) K. T. Nguyen et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

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

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

Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows-Wheeler transform

(2009) H. Li et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Phylogenetic detection of horizontal gene transfer during the step-wise genesis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

(2009) Frédéric Veyrier et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Circos: An information aesthetic for comparative genomics

(2009) M. Krzywinski et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

LpqM, a Mycobacterial Lipoprotein-Metalloproteinase, Is Required for Conjugal DNA Transfer in Mycobacterium smegmatis

(2009) K. T. Nguyen et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Non Mycobacterial Virulence Genes in the Genome of the Emerging Pathogen Mycobacterium abscessus

(2009) Fabienne Ripoll et al.   PLoS One

Natural Transformation of Helicobacter pylori Involves the Integration of Short DNA Fragments Interrupted by Gaps of Variable Size

(2009) Edward A. Lin et al.   PLoS Pathogens

A comparison of homologous recombination rates in bacteria and archaea

(2008) Michiel Vos et al.   ISME Journal