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Analysis of four pseudomonad genome sequences — two plant pathogens, a soil-borne insect pathogen and a plant commensal — provides a useful comparison of the different survival strategies that are used by this environmentally ubiquitous bacterial family.

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    Ana M. Cerdeño-Tárraga & Stephen Bentley

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DATABASES

Entrez Genome Project

Drosophila melanogaster

Pseudomonas entomophila

Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf5

Pseudomonas putida KT2440

Pseudomonas syringae

Pseudomonas syringae pathovar phaseolicola 1448A

Pseudomonas syringae pathovar syringae B728a

Pseudomonas syringae pathovar tomato DC3000

Ralstonia solanacearum

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Cerdeño-Tárraga, A., Bentley, S. Animal, vegetable or mineral?. Nat Rev Microbiol 4, 725–726 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrmicro1508

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