Lynn Y. Huynh

TL;DR: Findings indicate humans have played an important role in the evolution of anthrax by increasing the proliferation and dispersal of this now global disease.

TL;DR: In this paper, a nested hierarchal strategy for subtyping Bacillus anthracis isolates has been proposed, which is consistent with traditional diagnostics and applicable to a wide range of pathogens.

TL;DR: Using whole-genome comparisons of five diverse strains of Bacillus anthracis to facilitate SNP discovery shows that only polymorphisms lying along the evolutionary pathway between reference strains will be observed, and shows how divergent branches in topologies collapse to single points but provide accurate information on internodal distances and points of origin for ancestral clades.

TL;DR: Northern pumas showed both reduced genetic diversity and greater divergence from a hypothetical ancestral population based on Bayesian clustering analyses, possibly reflecting a post‐Pleistocene range expansion.

TL;DR: Six SNPs were found to be highly specific for the Ames strain, the strain used in the 2001 bioterrorist attacks in the United States, and this evolutionary and genomics-based approach provides an effective means for the discovery of strain-specific SNPs in B. anthracis.