Primordial origin and diversification of plasmids in Lyme disease agent bacteria

Primordial origin and diversification of plasmids in Lyme disease agent bacteria

Abstract Background With approximately one-third of their genomes consisting of linear and circular plasmids, the Lyme disease agent cluster of species has the most complex genomes among known bacteria. We report here a comparative analysis of plasmids in eleven Borreliella (also known as Borrelia b...

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Main Authors: Sherwood R. Casjens, Lia Di, Saymon Akther, Emmanuel F. Mongodin, Benjamin J. Luft, Steven E. Schutzer, Claire M. Fraser, Wei-Gang Qiu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-03-01
Series:BMC Genomics
Subjects:
Borreliella
Borrelia
Burgdorferi
Lyme disease
Linear plasmid
Circular plasmid
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12864-018-4597-x

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