Lineage specific recombination rates and microevolution in Listeria monocytogenes (2008)
Den Bakker, Henk C, Didelot, Xavier, Fortes, Esther D, Nightingale, Kendra K, Wiedmann, Martin
Abstract Background The bacterium Listeria monocytogenes is a saprotroph as well as an opportunistic human foodborne pathogen, which has previously been shown to consist of at least two widespread...
Mismatch induced speciation in Salmonella: model and data (2006)
Falush, Daniel, Torpdahl, Mia, Didelot, Xavier, Conrad, Donald F., Wilson, Daniel J., Achtman, Mark
Inference of Bacterial Microevolution Using Multilocus Sequence Data
Didelot, Xavier, Falush, Daniel
We describe a model-based method for using multilocus sequence data to infer the clonal relationships of bacteria and the chromosomal position of homologous recombination events that disrupt a clonal...
Didelot, Xavier, Achtman, Mark, Parkhill, Julian, Thomson, Nicholas R., Falush, Daniel
All Salmonella can cause disease but severe systemic infections are primarily caused by a few lineages. Paratyphi A and Typhi are the deadliest human restricted serovars, responsible for ∼600,000...
Mismatch induced speciation in Salmonella: model and data
Falush, Daniel, Torpdahl, Mia, Didelot, Xavier, Conrad, Donald F, Wilson, Daniel J, Achtman, Mark
In bacteria, DNA sequence mismatches act as a barrier to recombination between distantly related organisms and can potentially promote the cohesion of species. We have performed computer simulations...
Lineage specific recombination rates and microevolution in Listeria monocytogenes
Den Bakker, Henk C, Didelot, Xavier, Fortes, Esther D, Nightingale, Kendra K, Wiedmann, Martin
Kulick, Stefan, Moccia, Claudia, Didelot, Xavier, Falush, Daniel, Kraft, Christian, Suerbaum, Sebastian
Helicobacter pylori colonizes the gastric mucosa of half of the human population, causing gastritis, ulcers, and cancer. H. pylori is naturally competent for transformation by exogenous DNA, and...