Yang Zhou

TL;DR: The 5.67-megabase genome of the plant pathogen Agrobacterium tumefaciens C58 consists of a circular chromosome, a linear chromosome, and two plasmids that suggest a recent evolutionary divergence.

TL;DR: The chronology of events suggests a substantial role for genetic drift in the formation of pseudogenes in Francisella genomes, which may be shared by pathogens from other species.

TL;DR: The euchromatic sequence of chromosome 7, the first metacentric chromosome completed so far, has excellent concordance with previously established physical and genetic maps, and it exhibits an unusual amount of segmentally duplicated sequence.

TL;DR: These two genome sequences provide a platform for intra- and interspecies genomic comparisons in the genus Methylobacterium, and for investigations of the adaptive mechanisms which allow bacterial lineages to acquire methylotrophic lifestyles.

TL;DR: The genome sequence of the genetically tractable, mesophilic, hydrogenotrophic methanogen Methanococcus maripaludis contains 1,722 protein-coding genes in a single circular chromosome of 1,661,137 bp, which explained the ability of the organism to use L- and D-alanine as nitrogen sources.