Genome sequence of Rickettsia bellii illuminates the role of amoebae in gene exchanges between intracellular pathogens.

The recently sequenced Rickettsia felis genome revealed an unexpected plasmid carrying several genes usually associated with DNA transfer, suggesting that ancestral rickettsiae might have been endowed with a conjugation apparatus. Here we present the genome sequence of Rickettsia bellii, the earlies...

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Main Authors: Hiroyuki Ogata, Bernard La Scola, Stéphane Audic, Patricia Renesto, Guillaume Blanc, Catherine Robert, Pierre-Edouard Fournier, Jean-Michel Claverie, Didier Raoult
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2006-05-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1458961?pdf=render