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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Feng Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3264078 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of bacteriology 20120201 3
Salmonella enterica serovar Pullorum is a chicken-adapted pathogen, causing pullorum disease. Its strict host adaptation has been suspected to result in gene decay. To validate this hypothesis and identify the decayed genes, we sequenced the complete genome of S. Pullorum RKS5078. We found 263 pseudogenes in this strain and conducted functional analyses of the decayed genes. ...[more]