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Evolution of the core and pan-genome of Streptococcus: positive selection, recombination, and genome composition

Tristan Lefébure and Michael J Stanhope*

Genome Biology 2007, 8:R71 doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-5-r71

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Comparative genomic analysis of the genus Staphylococcus including Staphylococcus aureus and its newly described sister species Staphylococcus simiae

Haruo Suzuki, Tristan Lefebure, Paulina Pavinski Bitar, Michael J Stanhope BMC Genomics 2012, 13:38 (24 January 2012)

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Comparative genomic analysis of Streptococcus suis reveals significant genomic diversity among different serotypes

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Genomic lineages of Rhizobium etli revealed by the extent of nucleotide polymorphisms and low recombination

José L Acosta, Luis E Eguiarte, Rosa I Santamaría, Patricia Bustos, Pablo Vinuesa, Esperanza Martínez-Romero, Guillermo Dávila, Víctor González BMC Evolutionary Biology 2011, 11:305 (17 October 2011)

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Genome-wide evidence for positive selection and recombination in Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae

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Structure and dynamics of the pan-genome of Streptococcus pneumoniae and closely related species

Claudio Donati, N Luisa Hiller, Hervé Tettelin, Alessandro Muzzi, Nicholas J Croucher, Samuel V Angiuoli, Marco Oggioni, Julie C Dunning Hotopp, Fen Z Hu, David R Riley, Antonello Covacci, Tim J Mitchell, Stephen D Bentley, Morgens Kilian, Garth D Ehrlich, Rino Rappuoli, E Richard Moxon, Vega Masignani Genome Biology 2010, 11:R107 (29 October 2010)

Streptococcus pneumoniae genome analysis reveals that the presence of pathogenicity genes is not sufficient to determine virulence

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Legionella pneumophila pangenome reveals strain-specific virulence factors

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Genome wide evolutionary analyses reveal serotype specific patterns of positive selection in selected Salmonella serotypes

Yeşim Soyer, Renato H Orsi, Lorraine D Rodriguez-Rivera, Qi Sun, Martin Wiedmann BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9:264 (14 November 2009)

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Comparative genomic analyses of Streptococcus mutans provide insights into chromosomal shuffling and species-specific content

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Genomic and systems evolution in Vibrionaceae species

Jianying Gu, Jennifer Neary, Hong Cai, Audrey Moshfeghian, Stephen A Rodriguez, Timothy G Lilburn, Yufeng Wang BMC Genomics 2009, 10(Suppl 1):S11 (7 July 2009)

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Multiple genome alignment for identifying the core structure among moderately related microbial genomes

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Lineage specific recombination rates and microevolution in Listeria monocytogenes

Henk C den Bakker, Xavier Didelot, Esther D Fortes, Kendra K Nightingale, Martin Wiedmann BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:277 (8 October 2008)

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Genome-wide analyses reveal lineage specific contributions of positive selection and recombination to the evolution of Listeria monocytogenes

Renato H Orsi, Qi Sun, Martin Wiedmann BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:233 (12 August 2008)

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Basal DNA repair machinery is subject to positive selection in ionizing-radiation-resistant bacteria

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