High conservation combined with high plasticity: genomics and evolution of Borrelia bavariensis

High conservation combined with high plasticity: genomics and evolution of Borrelia bavariensis

Abstract Background Borrelia bavariensis is one of the agents of Lyme Borreliosis (or Lyme disease) in Eurasia. The genome of the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato species complex, that includes B. bavariensis, is known to be very complex and fragmented making the assembly of whole genomes with next-g...

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Main Authors: Noémie S. Becker, Robert E. Rollins, Kateryna Nosenko, Alexander Paulus, Samantha Martin, Stefan Krebs, Ai Takano, Kozue Sato, Sergey Y. Kovalev, Hiroki Kawabata, Volker Fingerle, Gabriele Margos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-10-01
Series:BMC Genomics
Subjects:
Borrelia bavariensis
Lyme Borreliosis
Genome assembly
Plasmids
Genetic plasticity
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12864-020-07054-3

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