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The early stage of bacterial genome-reductive evolution in the host.
PLoS pathogens - 27 May 2010
Song Han, Hwang Junghyun, Yi Hyojeong, Ulrich Ricky L, Yu Yan, Nierman William C, Kim Heenam Stanley
Abstract excerpt
The equine-associated obligate pathogen Burkholderia mallei was developed by reductive evolution involving a substantial portion of the genome from Burkholderia pseudomallei, a free-living opportunistic pathogen. With its short history of divergence (approximately 3.5 myr), B. mallei provides an...
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