Jansson, Désirée
- Department of Animal Biosciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Research article2011Peer reviewedOpen access
Håfström, Therese; Jansson, Monica Desiree Seger; Segerman, Bo
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.
Brachyspira intermedia; genome comparison; bacteriophages; horizontal gene transfer; AT/GC-skew
BMC Genomics
2011, Volume: 12, article number: 395
Publisher: BIOMED CENTRAL LTD
Genetics
Microbiology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-12-395
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/46484