Visualization of pseudogenes in intracellular bacteria reveals the different tracks to gene destruction

Hans-Henrik Fuxelius¹ , Alistair C Darby¹^,3 , Nam-Huyk Cho² and Siv GE Andersson¹

¹Department of Molecular Evolution, Evolutionary Biology Center, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18C, S-752 36 Uppsala, Sweden

²Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine and Institute of Endemic Diseases, Seoul National University Medical Research Center and Bundang hospital, 28 Yongon-Dong, Chongno-Gu, Seoul 110-799, Republic of Korea

³Vector Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool L3 5QA, UK

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Genome Biology 2008, 9:R42doi:10.1186/gb-2008-9-2-r42


Published:	26 February 2008

Subject areas: Evolution, Genome studies, Microbiology and parasitology

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Additional data file 1:

Presented is the visualization of all variable segments containing ORFs in the seven Rickettsia genomes using GenComp.

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Additional data file 2:

Presented is the distribution of individual strain-variable ORFs into species sets, phylogroups, and functional categories. Also shown is the most similar sequence outside the Rickettsiales.

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