Pangenome graphs

JM Eizenga, AM Novak, JA Sibbesen… - Annual review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Low-cost whole-genome assembly has enabled the collection of haplotype-resolved
pangenomes for numerous organisms. In turn, this technological change is encouraging the …

Producing polished prokaryotic pangenomes with the Panaroo pipeline

G Tonkin-Hill, N MacAlasdair, C Ruis, A Weimann… - Genome biology, 2020 - Springer
Population-level comparisons of prokaryotic genomes must take into account the substantial
differences in gene content resulting from horizontal gene transfer, gene duplication and …

Population genomics confirms acquisition of drug-resistant Aspergillus fumigatus infection by humans from the environment

J Rhodes, A Abdolrasouli, K Dunne, TR Sewell… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Infections caused by the fungal pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus are increasingly resistant to
first-line azole antifungal drugs. However, despite its clinical importance, little is known …

Current status of pan-genome analysis for pathogenic bacteria

Y Kim, C Gu, HU Kim, SY Lee - Current opinion in biotechnology, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•Wealth of genome data are making pan-genome analysis increasingly
possible.•Pan-genome analysis is an effective approach to understand pathogenic …

Genomic features of bacterial adaptation to plants

A Levy, I Salas Gonzalez, M Mittelviefhaus… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Plants intimately associate with diverse bacteria. Plant-associated bacteria have ostensibly
evolved genes that enable them to adapt to plant environments. However, the identities of …

A deep siamese neural network improves metagenome-assembled genomes in microbiome datasets across different environments

S Pan, C Zhu, XM Zhao, LP Coelho - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Metagenomic binning is the step in building metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs)
when sequences predicted to originate from the same genome are automatically grouped …

Resistance gene cloning from a wild crop relative by sequence capture and association genetics

S Arora, B Steuernagel, K Gaurav… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Disease resistance (R) genes from wild relatives could be used to engineer broad-spectrum
resistance in domesticated crops. We combined association genetics with R gene …

Fecal IgA levels are determined by strain-level differences in Bacteroides ovatus and are modifiable by gut microbiota manipulation

C Yang, I Mogno, EJ Contijoch, JN Borgerding… - Cell host & …, 2020 - cell.com
Fecal IgA production depends on colonization by a gut microbiota. However, the bacterial
strains that drive gut IgA production remain largely unknown. Here, we assessed the IgA …

Phylogenetic background and habitat drive the genetic diversification of Escherichia coli

M Touchon, A Perrin, JAM De Sousa, B Vangchhia… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Escherichia coli is mostly a commensal of birds and mammals, including humans, where it
can act as an opportunistic pathogen. It is also found in water and sediments. We …

Hypervirulent Listeria monocytogenes clones' adaption to mammalian gut accounts for their association with dairy products

MM Maury, H Bracq-Dieye, L Huang, G Vales… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) is a major human and animal foodborne pathogen. Here we
show that hypervirulent Lm clones, particularly CC1, are strongly associated with dairy …