Genome Skimming: A Rapid Approach to Gaining Diverse Biological Insights into Multicellular Pathogens

<p>Genome Skimming: A Rapid Approach to Gaining Diverse Biological Insights into Multicellular Pathogens</p

Genome skimming summary information and effector gene hits.

<p>Genome skimming summary information and effector gene hits.</p

Genome skimming schematic.

<p>Boxes progressing diagonally from top left to bottom right show steps typical of conventional genome projects. Grey boxes show steps shared by genome skimming and conventional genome projects. Red boxes, arrows, and Xs show conventional genome project steps eliminated in the genome skimming approach. Green boxes show analyses specific to our genome skimming strategy.</p

Box and blob plots.

<p>(A) Box plots reporting results for numbers of homologs detected for 65 highly conserved orthologs in 5 PPN species analyzed. Results for <i>G</i>. <i>ellingtonae</i> are not included because this species was found to encode a single homolog for all 65 orthologs. (B) and (C) Blob plot results for <i>X</i>. <i>americanum</i> and <i>P</i>. <i>penetrans</i>, respectively. Colors indicate BLAST matches to different species of bacteria.</p