Renato Tarchini

TL;DR: The 3,308,274-bp sequence of the chromosome of Lactobacillus plantarum strain WCFS1, a single colony isolate of strain NCIMB8826 that was originally isolated from human saliva, has been determined, and contains 3,052 predicted protein-encoding genes, suggesting that these genes form a lifestyle adaptation region in the chromosome.

TL;DR: The collective information on WSSV and the phylogenetic analysis on the viral DNA polymerase suggest that W SSV differs profoundly from all presently known viruses and that it is a representative of a new virus family.

TL;DR: The findings indicate that the use of rice as the model system for other cereals may sometimes be complicated by the presence of rapidly evolving gene families and microtranslocations.

TL;DR: GeneParityPlot analysis suggests that HaSNPV, SeM NPV and LdMNPV (group II) have structural genomic features in common and are distinct from the group I NPVs and from the granuloviruses.

TL;DR: The results demonstrate that conservation of the genome microstructure can be identified even between monocot and dicot species, and are consistent with the hypothesis that the Arabidopsis genome has undergone multiple duplication events.