Paul Janssen

TL;DR: Comparison of the newly obtained data with results previously obtained by well-established genotypic and chemotaxonomic methods shows the superior discriminative power of AFLP towards the differentiation of highly related bacterial strains that belong to the same species or even biovar (i.e. to characterize strains at the infrasubspecific level).

TL;DR: The uniformity of typing characters in two sets of outbreak strains suggests that strains in each cluster have a common clonal origin, and 12 strains from unrelated outbreaks were linked together in two clusters according to their similarities by these typing methods.

TL;DR: The genome data show that C. metallidurans CH34 is particularly well equipped to live in extreme conditions and anthropogenic environments that are rich in metals.

TL;DR: The results of this study clearly show that the AFLP technique is a valuable new high-resolution genotypic tool for classification of Aeromonas species and also emphasize that this powerful DNA fingerprinting method is important for bacterial taxonomy in general.

TL;DR: Transcriptomic analysis using quantitative PCR and microarrays revealed metal-mediated up-regulation of 83 genes on pMOL28 and 143 genes onpMOL30 that coded for all known heavy metal resistance proteins, some new heavyMetal resistance proteins (czcJ, mmrQ, and pbrU), membrane proteins, truncated transposases, conjugative transfer proteins, and many unknown proteins.