Comparative and functional genomics reveals genetic diversity and determinants of host specificity among reference strains and a large collection of Chinese isolates of the phytopathogen Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris

Yong-Qiang He^*¹ , Liang Zhang^*² , Bo-Le Jiang^*¹ , Zheng-Chun Zhang¹ , Rong-Qi Xu¹ , Dong-Jie Tang¹ , Jing Qin¹ , Wei Jiang¹ , Xia Zhang¹ , Jie Liao¹ , Jin-Ru Cao¹ , Sui-Sheng Zhang¹ , Mei-Liang Wei¹ , Xiao-Xia Liang¹ , Guang-Tao Lu¹ , Jia-Xun Feng¹ , Baoshan Chen¹ , Jing Cheng² and Ji-Liang Tang¹

¹Guangxi Key Laboratory of Subtropical Bioresources Conservation and Utilization, and College of Life Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Daxue Road, Nanning, Guangxi 530004, People's Republic of China

²CapitalBio Corporation, Life Science Parkway, Changping District, Beijing 102206, People's Republic of China

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Genome Biology 2007, 8:R218doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-10-r218


Published:	10 October 2007

Subject areas: Bioinformatics, Genome studies, Microbiology and parasitology

Additional files

Additional data file 1:

Bacterial strains and plasmids and the primers used in this study.

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Additional data file 2:

Phylogenetic relationships of partial 16S-23S rDNA ITS sequences of all of the Chinese Xcc strains examined and other Xanthomonas spp.

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Additional data file 3:

Confirmation of some present or AHD genes defined by aCGH.

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Array-based comparative genome hybridization results.

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Re-annotation of genes from XC2070 to XC2086 in the genome of Xcc strain 8004.

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The 305 proven/presumed pathogenicity genes among Xcc strains revealed by aCGH analyses.

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Deletion and confirmation of the T4SS locus in Xcc 8004.

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Numerical codes transferred from the results of aCGH analyses and plant tests.

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Coefficient values of correlation between plant test results and the gene distribution patterns of Xcc strains.

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