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

Jana M U'Ren, James M Schupp, Talima Pearson, Heidie Hornstra, Christine LC Friedman, Kimothy L Smith, Rebecca RL Daugherty, Shane D Rhoton, Ben Leadem, Shalamar Georgia, Michelle Cardon, Lynn Y Huynh, David DeShazer, Steven P Harvey, Richard Robison, Daniel Gal, Mark J Mayo, David Wagner, Bart J Currie and Paul Keim*

BMC Microbiology 2007, 7:23 doi:10.1186/1471-2180-7-23

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

Talima Pearson, Philip Giffard, Stephen Beckstrom-Sternberg, Raymond Auerbach, Heidie Hornstra, Apichai Tuanyok, Erin P Price, Mindy B Glass, Benjamin Leadem, James S Beckstrom-Sternberg, Gerard J Allan, Jeffrey T Foster, David M Wagner, Richard T Okinaka, Siew Sim, Ofori Pearson, Zaining Wu, Jean Chang, Rajinder Kaul, Alex R Hoffmaster, Thomas S Brettin, Richard A Robison, Mark Mayo, Jay E Gee, Patrick Tan, Bart J Currie, Paul Keim BMC Biology 2009, 7:78 (18 November 2009)

Despite a high level of lateral gene transfer, the phylogeny of Burkholderia pseudomallei is resolved by SNPs in orthologous shared regions, enabling a wider gene-based analysis to define two populations, ancestral Australian, and South East Asian, separated by the Wallace Line.