Parallel Evolution of a Type IV Secretion System in Radiating Lineages of the Host-Restricted Bacterial Pathogen Bartonella

• Published in: PLoS genetics Vol. 7; no. 2; p. e1001296
• Main Authors: Engel, Philipp, Salzburger, Walter, Liesch, Marius, Chang, Chao-Chin, Maruyama, Soichi, Lanz, Christa, Calteau, Alexandra, Lajus, Aurélie, Médigue, Claudine, Schuster, Stephan C., Dehio, Christoph
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 01.02.2011; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Acquisitions & mergers; Adaptation, Biological - genetics; Animals; Bacteria; Bacterial Proteins - genetics; Bacterial Secretion Systems - genetics; Bartonella; Bartonella - classification; Bartonella - genetics; Bartonella - metabolism; Biological Evolution; Computational Biology; Evolution; Evolution & development; Evolutionary Biology/Evolutionary and Comparative Genetics; Evolutionary Biology/Genomics; Evolutionary Biology/Microbial Evolution and Genomics; Experiments; Genetic aspects; Genetic Speciation; Genetics; Genetics and Genomics; Genetics and Genomics/Comparative Genomics; Genetics and Genomics/Genome Projects; Genetics and Genomics/Genomics; Genetics and Genomics/Microbial Evolution and Genomics; Genomes; HEK293 Cells; Host-Pathogen Interactions; Humans; Infectious Diseases; Infectious Diseases/Bacterial Infections; Intraspecific genetic variation; Life Sciences; Microbiology; Microbiology/Microbial Evolution and Genomics; Molecular Biology/Molecular Evolution; Molecular Sequence Annotation; Natural history; Origin of species; Phosphorylation; Phylogeny; Proteins; Rats; Selection, Genetic; Sequence Analysis, DNA

Adaptive radiation is the rapid origination of multiple species from a single ancestor as the result of concurrent adaptation to disparate environments. This fundamental evolutionary process is considered to be responsible for the genesis of a great portion of the diversity of life. Bacteria have ev...