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Kisha Watkins
Researcher at J. Craig Venter Institute
Publications - 9
Citations - 5494
Kisha Watkins is an academic researcher from J. Craig Venter Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Genome & Gene. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 9 publications receiving 4911 citations.
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Skewed genomic variability in strains of the toxigenic bacterial pathogen, Clostridium perfringens
Garry S. A. Myers,David A. Rasko,David A. Rasko,Jackie K. Cheung,Jacques Ravel,Rekha Seshadri,Robert T. DeBoy,Qinghu Ren,John J. Varga,Milena M. Awad,Lauren M. Brinkac,Sean C. Daugherty,Daniel H. Haft,Robert J. Dodson,Ramana Madupu,William C. Nelson,M. J. Rosovitz,Steven A. Sullivan,Hoda Khouri,George Dimitrov,Kisha Watkins,Stephanie Mulligan,Jonathan L. Benton,Diana Radune,Derek J. Fisher,Helen S. Atkins,Thomas J. Hiscox,B. Helen Jost,Stephen J. Billington,J. Glenn Songer,Bruce A. McClane,Richard W. Titball,Julian I. Rood,Stephen B. Melville,Ian T. Paulsen +34 more
TL;DR: Significant differences between the strains include numerous novel mobile elements and genes encoding metabolic capabilities, strain-specific extracellular polysaccharide capsule, sporulation factors, toxins, and other secreted enzymes, providing substantial insight into this medically important bacterial pathogen.
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Complete Genome Sequence of the Multiresistant Taxonomic Outlier Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA7
Paul H. Roy,Sasha G. Tetu,André Larouche,Liam D. H. Elbourne,Simon Tremblay,Qinghu Ren,Robert J. Dodson,Derek M. Harkins,Ryan Shay,Kisha Watkins,Yasmin Mahamoud,Ian T. Paulsen,Ian T. Paulsen +12 more
TL;DR: The complete sequence of the 6,588,339 bp genome of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA7 is reported, which has only about 95% overall identity to other strains, and has multiple novel genomic islands and a total of 51 occupied regions of genomic plasticity.
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Insights into Plant Cell Wall Degradation from the Genome Sequence of the Soil Bacterium Cellvibrio japonicus
Robert T. DeBoy,Emmanuel F. Mongodin,Derrick E. Fouts,Louise E. Tailford,Hoda Khouri,Joanne B. Emerson,Yasmin Ali Mohamoud,Kisha Watkins,Bernard Henrissat,Harry J. Gilbert,Karen E. Nelson,Karen E. Nelson +11 more
TL;DR: The results presented here predict that C. japonicus possesses an extensive range of glycoside hydrolases, lyases, and esterases, suggesting that the extensive arabinose decorations appended to pectins and xylans may represent a major nutrient source, not just for intestinal bacteria but also for microorganisms that occupy terrestrial ecosystems.
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Corrigendum: Complete genome sequence of the plant commensal Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf-5
Ian T. Paulsen,Caroline M. Press,Jacques Ravel,Donald Y. Kobayashi,Garry S. A. Myers,Dmitri V. Mavrodi,Robert T. DeBoy,Rekha Seshadri,Qinghu Ren,Ramana Madupu,Robert J. Dodson,A. Scott Durkin,Lauren M. Brinkac,Sean C. Daugherty,Stephen A Sullivan,M. J. Rosovitz,Michelle L. Gwinn,Liwei Zhou,Davd J Schneider,Samuel W. Cartinhour,William C. Nelson,Janice Weidman,Kisha Watkins,Kevin Tran,Hoda Khouri,Elizabeth A. Pierson,Leland S. Pierson,Linda S. Thomashow,Joyce E. Loper +28 more
TL;DR: The complete genome sequence of the plant commensal Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf-5 is given in this paper, where the authors also present a phylogenetic analysis.