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SUBMITTER: Baumler AJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC107043 | biostudies-literature | 1998 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bäumler A J AJ Norris T L TL Lasco T T Voight W W Reissbrodt R R Rabsch W W Heffron F F
Journal of bacteriology 19980301 6
Speciation in enterobacteria involved horizontal gene transfer. Therefore, analysis of genes acquired by horizontal transfer that are present in one species but not its close relatives is expected to give insights into how new bacterial species were formed. In this study we characterize iroN, a gene located downstream of the iroBC operon in the iroA locus of Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi. Like iroBC, the iroN gene is present in all phylogenetic lineages of S. enterica but is absent from clo ...[more]