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Genome-wide recombination in Chlamydia trachomatis

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A new study reports comparative genomic analysis of 52 geographically diverse strains of Chlamydia trachomatis. The authors reconstruct a genome-wide phylogeny of the species and report extensive genome-wide recombination across multiple lineages of this intracellular bacterial pathogen.

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Figure 1: Phylogenetic reconstruction of the four C. trachomatis biovars.

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  1. Sandeep J. Joseph and Timothy D. Read are at the Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.,

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Joseph, S., Read, T. Genome-wide recombination in Chlamydia trachomatis. Nat Genet 44, 364–366 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.2225

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