Article
Bacillus subtilis genome diversity.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Feb 2007
Earl Ashlee M, Losick Richard, Kolter Roberto
Abstract excerpt
Microarray-based comparative genomic hybridization (M-CGH) is a powerful method for rapidly identifying regions of genome diversity among closely related organisms. We used M-CGH to examine the genome diversity of 17 strains belonging to the nonpathogenic species Bacillus subtilis. Our M-CGH results indicate that there is considerable genetic heterogeneity among members of this species; nearly one-third of...
Topics
- Bacillus subtilis
- Bacterial Proteins
- Genes, Bacterial
- Genetic Variation
- Genome, Bacterial
- Nucleic Acid Hybridization
- Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis
- Phylogeny
- Species Specificity
