[HTML][HTML] Phylogeographic reconstruction of a bacterial species with high levels of lateral gene transfer

T Pearson, P Giffard, S Beckstrom-Sternberg… - BMC biology, 2009 - Springer
Background Phylogeographic reconstruction of some bacterial populations is hindered by
low diversity coupled with high levels of lateral gene transfer. A comparison of …

[HTML][HTML] Pangenome Analysis of Burkholderia pseudomallei: Genome Evolution Preserves Gene Order despite High Recombination Rates

SM Spring-Pearson, JK Stone, A Doyle, CJ Allender… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
The pangenomic diversity in Burkholderia pseudomallei is high, with approximately 5.8% of
the genome consisting of genomic islands. Genomic islands are known hotspots for …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic islands from five strains of Burkholderia pseudomallei

A Tuanyok, BR Leadem, RK Auerbach… - BMC genomics, 2008 - Springer
Background Burkholderia pseudomallei is the etiologic agent of melioidosis, a significant
cause of morbidity and mortality where this infection is endemic. Genomic differences …

Efficient inference of recent and ancestral recombination within bacterial populations

R Mostowy, NJ Croucher, CP Andam… - Molecular biology …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Prokaryotic evolution is affected by horizontal transfer of genetic material through
recombination. Inference of an evolutionary tree of bacteria thus relies on accurate …

[HTML][HTML] Tandem repeat regions within the Burkholderia pseudomallei genome and their application for high resolution genotyping

JM U'Ren, JM Schupp, T Pearson, H Hornstra… - BMC microbiology, 2007 - Springer
Background The facultative, intracellular bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei is the
causative agent of melioidosis, a serious infectious disease of humans and animals. We …

Recombination produces coherent bacterial species clusters in both core and accessory genomes

P Marttinen, NJ Croucher, MU Gutmann… - Microbial …, 2015 - microbiologyresearch.org
Background: Population samples show bacterial genomes can be divided into a core of
ubiquitous genes and accessory genes that are present in a fraction of isolates. The …

Bacterial phylogenetic reconstruction from whole genomes is robust to recombination but demographic inference is not

J Hedge, DJ Wilson - MBio, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
Phylogenetic inference in bacterial genomics is fundamental to understanding problems
such as population history, antimicrobial resistance, and transmission dynamics. The field …

Rapid phylogenetic analysis of large samples of recombinant bacterial whole genome sequences using Gubbins

NJ Croucher, AJ Page, TR Connor… - Nucleic acids …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The emergence of new sequencing technologies has facilitated the use of bacterial whole
genome alignments for evolutionary studies and outbreak analyses. These datasets, of …

Whole genome phylogenies reflect the distributions of recombination rates for many bacterial species

T Sakoparnig, C Field, E van Nimwegen - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Although recombination is accepted to be common in bacteria, for many species robust
phylogenies with well-resolved branches can be reconstructed from whole genome …

Exploring the concept of clonality in bacteria

BG Spratt - … , Proteomics, and Clinical Bacteriology: Methods and …, 2004 - Springer
Isolates of bacterial species that are indistinguishable in genotype are assigned as a clone,
with the implication that they are descended from the same recent ancestor. Clones are …