Short-sequence DNA repeat (SSR) loci can be identified in all eukaryotic and many
prokaryotic genomes. These loci harbor short or long stretches of repeated nucleotide …

Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Neisseria meningitidis are Gram-negative bacterial pathogens
that are exquisitely adapted for growth at human mucosal surfaces and for efficient …

Recent advances in high-throughput RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) have enabled
tremendous leaps forward in our understanding of bacterial transcriptomes. However …

Neisseria meningitidis is a major cause of bacterial septicemia and meningitis. Sequence
variation of surface-exposed proteins and cross-reactivity of the serogroup B capsular …

Discovery of genetic variants underlying bacterial phenotypes and the prediction of
phenotypes such as antibiotic resistance are fundamental tasks in bacterial genomics …

The process of DNA donation for natural transformation of bacteria is poorly understood and
has been assumed to involve bacterial cell death. Recently in Neisseria gonorrhoeae we …

Neisseria gonorrhoeae homologues of gyrA and parC have been identified using
hybridization probes generated from conserved regions of diverse gyrA genes. These genes …

A bstract Determination of the relative abundance of a specific prokaryote in an
environmental sample is of major interest in applied and environmental microbiology …

Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis: A Practical Guide is the first laboratory manual to describe
the theory and practice of this technique. Based on the authors' experience developing …

Neisseria gonorrhoeae (the gonococcus) is the causative agent of the sexually transmitted
disease gonorrhoea. Most gonococcal infections remain localized to the genital tract but, in …