Whole-Genome Comparison betweenPhotorhabdusStrains To Identify Genomic Regions Involved in the Specificity of Nematode Interaction
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- 15 January 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Bacteriology
- Vol. 188 (2) , 809-814
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.188.2.809-814.2006
Abstract
The bacterium Photorhabdus establishes a highly specific association with Heterorhabditis, its nematode host. Photorhabdus strains associated with Heterorhabditis bacteriophora or Heterorhabditis megidis were compared using a Photorhabdus DNA microarray. We describe 31 regions belonging to the Photorhabdus flexible gene pool. Distribution analysis of regions among the Photorhabdus genus identified loci possibly involved in nematode specificity.Keywords
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