Article
Edwardsiella comparative phylogenomics reveal the new intra/inter-species taxonomic relationships, virulence evolution and niche adaptation mechanisms.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Yang Minjun, Lv Yuanzhi, Xiao Jingfan, Wu Haizhen, Zheng Huajun, Liu Qin, Zhang Yuanxing, Wang Qiyao
Abstract excerpt
Edwardsiella bacteria are leading fish pathogens causing huge losses to aquaculture industries worldwide. E. tarda is a broad-host range pathogen that infects more than 20 species of fish and other animals including humans while E. ictaluri is host-adapted to channel catfish causing enteric septicemia of catfish (ESC). Thus, these two species consist of a useful comparative system for studying the intricacies of...
Topics
- Animals
- Catfishes
- Edwardsiella ictaluri
- Edwardsiella tarda
- Enterobacteriaceae Infections
- Evolution, Molecular
- Fish Diseases
- Genome, Bacterial
- Genomics
- Genotype