A common genomic framework for a diverse assembly of plasmids in the symbiotic nitrogen fixing bacteria

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 3; no. 7; p. e2567
• Main Authors: Crossman, Lisa C, Castillo-Ramírez, Santiago, McAnnula, Craig, Lozano, Luis, Vernikos, Georgios S, Acosta, José L, Ghazoui, Zara F, Hernández-González, Ismael, Meakin, Georgina, Walker, Alan W, Hynes, Michael F, Young, J Peter W, Downie, J Allan, Romero, David, Johnston, Andrew W B, Dávila, Guillermo, Parkhill, Julian, González, Víctor
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 02.07.2008; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Analysis; Bacteria; Biology; Chromosomes; Computational Biology/Comparative Sequence Analysis; Computational Biology/Genomics; Evolution, Molecular; Genes; Genome, Bacterial; Genomes; Genomics; Legumes; Metabolites; Models, Genetic; Motility; Nitrogen; Nitrogen fixation; Nitrogen Fixation - genetics; Phaseolus vulgaris; Phylogenetics; Phylogeny; Plasmids; Plasmids - genetics; Plasmids - metabolism; Proteins; Regulation; Rhizobiaceae; Rhizobium etli; Rhizobium etli - genetics; Rhizobium leguminosarum; Rhizobium leguminosarum - genetics; Symbiosis - genetics; Synteny

This work centres on the genomic comparisons of two closely-related nitrogen-fixing symbiotic bacteria, Rhizobium leguminosarum biovar viciae 3841 and Rhizobium etli CFN42. These strains maintain a stable genomic core that is also common to other rhizobia species plus a very variable and significant...