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Reconstructing host range evolution of bacterial plant pathogens using Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato and its close relatives as a model.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Oct 2011
Cai Rongman, Yan Shuangchun, Liu Haijie, Leman Scotland, Vinatzer Boris A
Abstract excerpt
Several lines of evidence suggest that highly virulent bacterial human pathogens evolved from less virulent wider host range animal pathogens since human migration out of Africa. To investigate evolution of host specificity of bacterial plant pathogens, here we report a molecular evolutionary analysis of the model plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 and of close relatives that are pathogens of a...
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