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Recruitment of a Lineage-Specific Virulence Regulatory Pathway Promotes Intracellular Infection by a Plant Pathogen Experimentally Evolved into a Legume Symbiont.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Oct 2017
Capela Delphine, Marchetti Marta, Clérissi Camille, Perrier Anthony, Guetta Dorian, Gris Carine, Valls Marc, Jauneau Alain, Cruveiller Stéphane, Rocha Eduardo P C, Masson-Boivin Catherine
Abstract excerpt
Ecological transitions between different lifestyles, such as pathogenicity, mutualism and saprophytism, have been very frequent in the course of microbial evolution, and often driven by horizontal gene transfer. Yet, how genomes achieve the ecological transition initiated by the transfer of complex biological traits remains poorly known. Here, we used experimental evolution, genomics, transcriptomics and...
Topics
- Directed Molecular Evolution
- Fabaceae
- Gene Regulatory Networks
- Gene Transfer, Horizontal
- Genes, Bacterial
- Genome, Bacterial
- Mimosa
- Mutation
- Plasmids
- Ralstonia solanacearum
- Symbiosis
- Virulence