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Origins of the Xylella fastidiosa prophage-like regions and their impact in genome differentiation.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2008
de Mello Varani Alessandro, Souza Rangel Celso, Nakaya Helder I, de Lima Wanessa Cristina, Paula de Almeida Luiz Gonzaga, Kitajima Elliot Watanabe, Chen Jianchi, Civerolo Edwin, Vasconcelos Ana Tereza Ribeiro, Van Sluys Marie-Anne
Abstract excerpt
Xylella fastidiosa is a Gram negative plant pathogen causing many economically important diseases, and analyses of completely sequenced X. fastidiosa genome strains allowed the identification of many prophage-like elements and possibly phage remnants, accounting for up to 15% of the genome composition. To better evaluate the recent evolution of the X. fastidiosa chromosome backbone among distinct pathovars, the...
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