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Brothers in arms

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This month we discuss the insights that genomics can provide into the evolution and speciation of virulent human pathogens, using two pertinent examples from the Yersinia and Burkholderia genera.

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Figure 1: World distribution of plague, 1998.
Figure 2: Actin tail formation by Burkholderia pseudomallei.

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    Nicholas Thomson, Matthew Holden & Julian Parkhill

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Burkholderia mallei

Burkholderia pseudomallei

Y. pestis strain CO92

Y. pestis strain 91001

Y. pestis KIM 10 strain

Y. pseudotuberculosis strain IP32953

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Thomson, N., Holden, M. & Parkhill, J. Brothers in arms. Nat Rev Microbiol 3, 100–101 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrmicro1092

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