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Phylogenomics reveals a diverse Rickettsiales type IV secretion system.
Infection and immunity - 1 May 2010
Gillespie Joseph J, Brayton Kelly A, Williams Kelly P, Diaz Marco A Quevedo, Brown Wendy C, Azad Abdu F, Sobral Bruno W
Abstract excerpt
With an obligate intracellular lifestyle, Alphaproteobacteria of the order Rickettsiales have inextricably coevolved with their various eukaryotic hosts, resulting in small, reductive genomes and strict dependency on host resources. Unsurprisingly, large portions of Rickettsiales genomes encode p...
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