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DATABASES

Entrez Genome

wBm

wMel

Entrez Genome Project

Blochmannia floridanus

Blochmannia pennsylvanicus

Bordetella pertussis

Brugia malayi

Drosophila melanogaster

Escherichia coli

Glossina morsitans

Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Shigella flexneri

Sodalis glossinidius

Trypanosoma brucei

Wigglesworthia glossinidium

Yersinia enterocolitica

Yersinia pestis

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Thomson, N., Crossman, L. & Bentley, S. Bacterial home from home. Nat Rev Microbiol 4, 168–170 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrmicro1367

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