Lateral gene transfer (LGT) is often seen as a form of noise, obscuring the phylogenetic
signal with which we might hope to reconstruct the evolution of a group of organisms, or …

A virulence‐associated region in the genome of Dichelobacter nodosus has been shown to
contain an integrase gene which is highly related to the integrases of Shigella flexneri …

DNA recombination in exponential phase and competent Haemophilus influenzae was
measured by an electron microscopic assay that relies on the conversion of plasmid …

Genome sequencing, the determination of the complete complement of DNA in an organism,
is revolutionizing all aspects of the biological sciences. Genome sequences make available …

The deduced amino acid sequences from 1200 Haemophilus influenzae genes was
compared to a data set that contained the orfs from yeast, two different Archaea and the …

Abstract Background: The 1.83 Megabase (Mb) sequence of the Haemophilus influenzae
chromosome, the first completed genome sequence of a cellular life form, has been recently …

Haemophilus cells efficiently take up Haemophilus DNA from the medium during
transformation but do not take up other DNAs. To study the mechanism of this specificity we …

The DNA-uptake signal sequence (USS) of the bacterium Haemophilus influenzae is highly
over-represented in its genome (1,471 copies of the core sequence AAGTGCGGT), and …

Horizontal gene transfer is a major driving force in the evolution of many bacterial
pathogens. The development of high-throughput sequencing tools and more sophisticated …

Recombination enhances the adaptive potential of organisms by allowing genetic variants to
be tested on multiple genomic backgrounds. Its distribution in the genome can provide …