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Microevolution of Renibacterium salmoninarum: evidence for intercontinental dissemination associated with fish movements.
The ISME journal - 1 Apr 2014
Brynildsrud Ola, Feil Edward J, Bohlin Jon, Castillo-Ramirez Santiago, Colquhoun Duncan, McCarthy Una, Matejusova Iveta M, Rhodes Linda D, Wiens Gregory D, Verner-Jeffreys David W
Abstract excerpt
Renibacterium salmoninarum is the causative agent of bacterial kidney disease, a major pathogen of salmonid fish species worldwide. Very low levels of intra-species genetic diversity have hampered efforts to understand the transmission dynamics and recent evolutionary history of this Gram-positive bacterium. We exploited recent advances in the next-generation sequencing technology to generate genome-wide...
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