Jansson, Désirée
- Department of Animal Biosciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Abstract
Conclusions: The accessory gene pool shapes species-specific traits. It is also influenced by reductive genome evolution and horizontal gene transfer. Gene-transfer events can cross both species and genus boundaries and bacteriophages appear to play an important role in this process. A mechanism for horizontal gene transfer appears to be gene translocations leading to remodeling of bacteriophages in combination with broad tropism.
Keywords
Brachyspira intermedia; genome comparison; bacteriophages; horizontal gene transfer; AT/GC-skew
Published in
BMC Genomics
2011, volume: 12, article number: 395
Publisher: BIOMED CENTRAL LTD
SLU Authors
UKÄ Subject classification
Genetics and Genomics
Microbiology
Publication identifier
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-12-395
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/46484