Valerie Burland

TL;DR: The 4,639,221-base pair sequence of Escherichia coli K-12 is presented and reveals ubiquitous as well as narrowly distributed gene families; many families of similar genes within E. coli are also evident.

TL;DR: It is found that lateral gene transfer is far more extensive than previously anticipated and 1,387 new genes encoded in strain-specific clusters of diverse sizes were found in O157:H7, including candidate virulence factors, alternative metabolic capacities, several prophages and other new functions—all of which could be targets for surveillance.

TL;DR: The complete genome sequence of uropathogenic Escherichia coli, strain CFT073 is presented and Comparisons indicate that extraintestinal pathogenic E. coli arose independently from multiple clonal lineages.

TL;DR: Eradication of stress-induced transposition evidently stabilized the MDS genomes and provided some of the new properties and led to unanticipated beneficial properties: high electroporation efficiency and accurate propagation of recombinant genes and plasmids that were unstable in other strains.

TL;DR: The KIM genome sequence was compared with that of Y. pestis CO92, biovar Orientalis, revealing homologous sequences but a remarkable amount of genome rearrangement for strains so closely related, in a manner consistent with present knowledge of replication and recombination.