Michael A. Quail

Population genomics of domestic and wild yeasts (2008)

David M. Carter, Gianni Liti, Alan M. Moses, Leopold Parts, Stephen A. James, Robert P. Davey, ...

The natural genetics of an organism is determined by the distribution of sequences of its genome. Here we present one- to four-fold, with some deeper, coverage of the genome sequences of over seventy...

The complete genome, comparative and functional analysis of Stenotrophomonas maltophiliareveals an organism heavily shielded by drug resistance determinants (2008)

Crossman, Lisa C, Gould, Virginia C, Dow, J Maxwell, Vernikos, Georgios S, Okazaki, Aki, Sebaihia, Mohammed, ...

Abstract Background Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is a nosocomial opportunistic pathogen of the Xanthomonadaceae. The organism has been isolated from both clinical and soil environments in addition to...

Chlamydia trachomatis: Genome sequence analysis of lymphogranuloma venereum isolates. (2008)

Thomson, Nicholas R., Holden, .Matthew T.G., Carder, C.Caroline, Lennard, Nicola, Lockey, Sarah J., Marsh, Pete, ...

Chlamydia trachomatis is the most common cause of sexually transmitted infections in the UK, a statistic that is also reflected globally. There are three biovariants of C. trachomatis: trachoma...

Meningococcal Genetic Variation Mechanisms Viewed through Comparative Analysis of Serogroup C Strain FAM18 (2007)

Stephen D. Bentley, George S. Vernikos, Carol Churcher, Claire Arrowsmith, Tracey Chillingworth, ...

The bacterium Neisseria meningitidis is commonly found harmlessly colonising the mucosal surfaces of the human nasopharynx. Occasionally strains can invade host tissues causing septicaemia and...

Meningococcal genetic variation mechanisms viewed through comparative analysis of serogroup C strain FAM18 (2007)

Bentley, Stephen D., Vernikos, George S., Snyder, Lori A. S., Churcher, Carol, Arrowsmith, Claire, Chillingworth, Tracey, ...

The bacterium Neisseria meningitidis is commonly found harmlessly colonising the mucosal surfaces of the human nasopharynx. Occasionally strains can invade host tissues causing septicaemia and...

The Complete Genome Sequence and Comparative Genome Analysis of the High Pathogenicity Yersinia enterocolitica Strain 8081 (2006)

Nicholas R. Thomson, Sarah Howard, Brendan W. Wren, Lisa Crossman, Gregory L. Challis, ...

The human enteropathogen, Yersinia enterocolitica, is a significant link in the range of Yersinia pathologies extending from mild gastroenteritis to bubonic plague. Comparison at the genomic level is...

Comparative genomic view of mechanisms of variation in Neisseria meningitidis through sequencing and analysis of a third meningococcal genome from serogroup C strain FAM18 (2006)

Stephen D. Bentley, George Vernikos, Carol Churcher, Claire Arrowsmith, Tracey Chillingworth, ...

The bacterium, Neisseria meningitidis, is commonly found harmlessly colonising the mucosal surfaces of the human nasopharynx. Occasionally strains can invade host tissues causing septicaemia and...

Phylogenetic Relationships of the Wolbachia of Nematodes and Arthropods (2006)

Katelyn Fenn, Claire Conlon, Martin Jones, Michael A. Quail, Nancy E. Holroyd, Julian Parkhill, ...

Wolbachia are well known as bacterial symbionts of arthropods, where they are reproductive parasites, but have also been described from nematode hosts, where the symbiotic interaction has features of...

The genome of Rhizobium leguminosarumhas recognizable core and accessory components (2006)

Young, J Peter W, Crossman, Lisa C, Johnston, Andrew WB, Thomson, Nicholas R, Ghazoui, Zara F, Hull, Katherine H, ...

Abstract Background Rhizobium leguminosarum is an α-proteobacterial N 2 -fixing symbiont of legumes that has been the subject of more than a thousand publications. Genes for the symbiotic...

Genetic Analysis of the Capsular Biosynthetic Locus from All 90 Pneumococcal Serotypes (2006)

Stephen D. Bentley, David M. Aanensen, Angeliki Mavroidi, David Saunders, Ester Rabbinowitsch, Matthew Collins, ...

Several major invasive bacterial pathogens are encapsulated. Expression of a polysaccharide capsule is essential for survival in the blood, and thus for virulence, but also is a target for host...

Plasmodium falciparum Variant Surface Antigen Expression Patterns during Malaria (2005)

Peter C. Bull, Matthew Berriman, Sue Kyes, Michael A. Quail, Neil Hall, Moses M. Kortok, ...

The variant surface antigens expressed on Plasmodium falciparum–infected erythrocytes are potentially important targets of immunity to malaria and are encoded, at least in part, by a family of var...

Genomic plasticity of the causative agent of melioidosis, Burkholderia pseudomallei (2004)

Holden, Matthew T. G., Titball, Richard W., Peacock, Sharon J., Cerdeno-Tarraga, Ana M., Atkins, Timothy, Crossman, Lisa C., ...

Burkholderia pseudomallei is a recognized biothreat agent and the causative agent of melioidosis. This Gram-negative bacterium exists as a soil saprophyte in melioidosis-endemic areas of the world...

Genomic plasticity of the causative agent of melioidosis, Burkholderia pseudomallei (2004)

Holden, Matthew T. G., Titball, Richard W., Peacock, Sharon J., Cerdeno-Tarraga, Ana M., Atkins, Timothy, Crossman, Lisa C., ...

Burkholderia pseudomallei is a recognized biothreat agent and the causative agent of melioidosis. This Gram-negative bacterium exists as a soil saprophyte in melioidosis-endemic areas of the world...

The DNA sequence of chromosome I of an African trypanosome: gene content, chromosome organisation, recombination and polymorphism (2003)

Hall, Neil, Berriman, Matthew, Lennard, Nicola J., Harris, Barbara R., Hertz-Fowler, Christiane, Bart-Delabesse, Emmanuelle N., ...

The African trypanosome, Trypanosoma brucei, causes sleeping sickness in humans in sub-Saharan Africa. Here we report the sequence and analysis of the 1.1 Mb chromosome I, which encodes approximately...

Complete Sequence and Organization of pBtoxis, the Toxin-Coding Plasmid of Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis

Berry, Colin, O'Neil, Susan, Ben-Dov, Eitan, Jones, Andrew F., Murphy, Lee, Quail, Michael A., ...

The entire 127,923-bp sequence of the toxin-encoding plasmid pBtoxis from Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis is presented and analyzed. In addition to the four known Cry and two known Cyt...

The DNA sequence of chromosome I of an African trypanosome: gene content, chromosome organisation, recombination and polymorphism

Hall, Neil, Berriman, Matthew, Lennard, Nicola J., Harris, Barbara R., Hertz-Fowler, Christiane, Bart-Delabesse, Emmanuelle N., ...

The African trypanosome, Trypanosoma brucei, causes sleeping sickness in humans in sub-Saharan Africa. Here we report the sequence and analysis of the 1.1 Mb chromosome I, which encodes approximately...

Short-Insert Libraries as a Method of Problem Solving in Genome Sequencing

McMurray, Amanda A., Sulston, John E., Quail, Michael A.

As the Human Genome Project moves into its sequencing phase, a serious problem has arisen. The same problem has been increasingly vexing in the closing phase of the Caenorhabditis elegans project....

The Complex Repeats of Dictyostelium discoideum

Glöckner, Gernot, Szafranski, Karol, Winckler, Thomas, Dingermann, Theodor, Quail, Michael A., Cox, Edward, ...

In the course of determining the sequence of the Dictyostelium discoideum genome we have characterized in detail the quantity and nature of interspersed repetitive elements present in this species....

Genomic and Genetic Analysis of Bordetella Bacteriophages Encoding Reverse Transcriptase-Mediated Tropism-Switching Cassettes

Liu, Minghsun, Gingery, Mari, Doulatov, Sergei R., Liu, Yichin, Hodes, Asher, Baker, Stephen, ...

Liu et al. recently described a group of related temperate bacteriophages that infect Bordetella subspecies and undergo a unique template-dependent, reverse transcriptase-mediated tropism switching...

Complete genomes of two clinical Staphylococcus aureus strains: Evidence for the rapid evolution of virulence and drug resistance

Holden, Matthew T. G., Feil, Edward J., Lindsay, Jodi A., Peacock, Sharon J., Day, Nicholas P. J., Enright, Mark C., ...

Staphylococcus aureus is an important nosocomial and community-acquired pathogen. Its genetic plasticity has facilitated the evolution of many virulent and drug-resistant strains, presenting a major...

Genomic plasticity of the causative agent of melioidosis, Burkholderia pseudomallei

Holden, Matthew T. G., Titball, Richard W., Peacock, Sharon J., Cerdeño-Tárraga, Ana M., Atkins, Timothy, Crossman, Lisa C., ...

Burkholderia pseudomallei is a recognized biothreat agent and the causative agent of melioidosis. This Gram-negative bacterium exists as a soil saprophyte in melioidosis-endemic areas of the world...

The Chlamydophila abortus genome sequence reveals an array of variable proteins that contribute to interspecies variation

Thomson, Nicholas R., Yeats, Corin, Bell, Kenneth, Holden, Matthew T.G., Bentley, Stephen D., Livingstone, Morag, ...

The obligate intracellular bacterial pathogen Chlamydophila abortus strain S26/3 (formerly the abortion subtype of Chlamydia psittaci) is an important cause of late gestation abortions in ruminants...

An ancestral oomycete locus contains late blight avirulence gene Avr3a, encoding a protein that is recognized in the host cytoplasm

Armstrong, Miles R., Whisson, Stephen C., Pritchard, Leighton, Bos, Jorunn I. B., Venter, Eduard, Avrova, Anna O., ...

The oomycete Phytophthora infestans causes late blight, the potato disease that precipitated the Irish famines in 1846 and 1847. It represents a reemerging threat to potato production and is one of...

The pCoo Plasmid of Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli Is a Mosaic Cointegrate†

Froehlich, Barbara, Parkhill, Julian, Sanders, Mandy, Quail, Michael A., Scott, June R.

CS1 is the prototype of a class of pili of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) associated with diarrheal disease in humans. The genes encoding this pilus are carried on a large plasmid, pCoo. We...

Plasmodium falciparum Variant Surface Antigen Expression Patterns during Malaria

Bull, Peter C, Berriman, Matthew, Kyes, Sue, Quail, Michael A, Hall, Neil, Kortok, Moses M, ...

The variant surface antigens expressed on Plasmodium falciparum–infected erythrocytes are potentially important targets of immunity to malaria and are encoded, at least in part, by a family of var...

Genetic Analysis of the Capsular Biosynthetic Locus from All 90 Pneumococcal Serotypes

Bentley, Stephen D, Aanensen, David M, Mavroidi, Angeliki, Saunders, David, Rabbinowitsch, Ester, Collins, Matthew, ...

Several major invasive bacterial pathogens are encapsulated. Expression of a polysaccharide capsule is essential for survival in the blood, and thus for virulence, but also is a target for host...

The genome of Rhizobium leguminosarum has recognizable core and accessory components

Young, J Peter W, Crossman, Lisa C, Johnston, Andrew WB, Thomson, Nicholas R, Ghazoui, Zara F, Hull, Katherine H, ...

The genome sequence of the α-proteobacterial N2-fixing symbiont of legumes, Rhizobium leguminosarum, is described, revealing a 'core' and an 'accessory' component.

Gene Arrays at Pneumocystis carinii Telomeres

Keely, Scott P., Renauld, Hubert, Wakefield, Ann E., Cushion, Melanie T., Smulian, A. George, Fosker, Nigel, ...

In the fungus Pneumocystis carinii, at least three gene families (PRT1, MSR, and MSG) have the potential to generate high-frequency antigenic variation, which is likely to be a strategy by which this...

Phylogenetic Relationships of the Wolbachia of Nematodes and Arthropods

Fenn, Katelyn, Conlon, Claire, Jones, Martin, Quail, Michael A, Holroyd, Nancy E, Parkhill, Julian, ...

Wolbachia are well known as bacterial symbionts of arthropods, where they are reproductive parasites, but have also been described from nematode hosts, where the symbiotic interaction has features of...

Complete Sequence and Organization of pBtoxis, the Toxin-Coding Plasmid of Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis

Berry, Colin, O'Neil, Susan, Ben-Dov, Eitan, Jones, Andrew F., Murphy, Lee, Quail, Michael A., ...

The entire 127,923-bp sequence of the toxin-encoding plasmid pBtoxis from Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis is presented and analyzed. In addition to the four known Cry and two known Cyt...

The DNA sequence of chromosome I of an African trypanosome: gene content, chromosome organisation, recombination and polymorphism

Hall, Neil, Berriman, Matthew, Lennard, Nicola J., Harris, Barbara R., Hertz-Fowler, Christiane, Bart-Delabesse, Emmanuelle N., ...

The African trypanosome, Trypanosoma brucei, causes sleeping sickness in humans in sub-Saharan Africa. Here we report the sequence and analysis of the 1.1 Mb chromosome I, which encodes approximately...

Short-Insert Libraries as a Method of Problem Solving in Genome Sequencing

McMurray, Amanda A., Sulston, John E., Quail, Michael A.

As the Human Genome Project moves into its sequencing phase, a serious problem has arisen. The same problem has been increasingly vexing in the closing phase of the Caenorhabditis elegans project....

The Complex Repeats of Dictyostelium discoideum

Glöckner, Gernot, Szafranski, Karol, Winckler, Thomas, Dingermann, Theodor, Quail, Michael A., Cox, Edward, ...

In the course of determining the sequence of the Dictyostelium discoideum genome we have characterized in detail the quantity and nature of interspersed repetitive elements present in this species....

Genomic and Genetic Analysis of Bordetella Bacteriophages Encoding Reverse Transcriptase-Mediated Tropism-Switching Cassettes

Liu, Minghsun, Gingery, Mari, Doulatov, Sergei R., Liu, Yichin, Hodes, Asher, Baker, Stephen, ...

Liu et al. recently described a group of related temperate bacteriophages that infect Bordetella subspecies and undergo a unique template-dependent, reverse transcriptase-mediated tropism switching...

Complete genomes of two clinical Staphylococcus aureus strains: Evidence for the rapid evolution of virulence and drug resistance

Holden, Matthew T. G., Feil, Edward J., Lindsay, Jodi A., Peacock, Sharon J., Day, Nicholas P. J., Enright, Mark C., ...

Staphylococcus aureus is an important nosocomial and community-acquired pathogen. Its genetic plasticity has facilitated the evolution of many virulent and drug-resistant strains, presenting a major...

Genomic plasticity of the causative agent of melioidosis, Burkholderia pseudomallei

Holden, Matthew T. G., Titball, Richard W., Peacock, Sharon J., Cerdeño-Tárraga, Ana M., Atkins, Timothy, Crossman, Lisa C., ...

Burkholderia pseudomallei is a recognized biothreat agent and the causative agent of melioidosis. This Gram-negative bacterium exists as a soil saprophyte in melioidosis-endemic areas of the world...

The Chlamydophila abortus genome sequence reveals an array of variable proteins that contribute to interspecies variation

Thomson, Nicholas R., Yeats, Corin, Bell, Kenneth, Holden, Matthew T.G., Bentley, Stephen D., Livingstone, Morag, ...

The obligate intracellular bacterial pathogen Chlamydophila abortus strain S26/3 (formerly the abortion subtype of Chlamydia psittaci) is an important cause of late gestation abortions in ruminants...

An ancestral oomycete locus contains late blight avirulence gene Avr3a, encoding a protein that is recognized in the host cytoplasm

Armstrong, Miles R., Whisson, Stephen C., Pritchard, Leighton, Bos, Jorunn I. B., Venter, Eduard, Avrova, Anna O., ...

The oomycete Phytophthora infestans causes late blight, the potato disease that precipitated the Irish famines in 1846 and 1847. It represents a reemerging threat to potato production and is one of...

The pCoo Plasmid of Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli Is a Mosaic Cointegrate†

Froehlich, Barbara, Parkhill, Julian, Sanders, Mandy, Quail, Michael A., Scott, June R.

CS1 is the prototype of a class of pili of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) associated with diarrheal disease in humans. The genes encoding this pilus are carried on a large plasmid, pCoo. We...

Plasmodium falciparum Variant Surface Antigen Expression Patterns during Malaria

Bull, Peter C, Berriman, Matthew, Kyes, Sue, Quail, Michael A, Hall, Neil, Kortok, Moses M, ...

The variant surface antigens expressed on Plasmodium falciparum–infected erythrocytes are potentially important targets of immunity to malaria and are encoded, at least in part, by a family of var...

Genetic Analysis of the Capsular Biosynthetic Locus from All 90 Pneumococcal Serotypes

Bentley, Stephen D, Aanensen, David M, Mavroidi, Angeliki, Saunders, David, Rabbinowitsch, Ester, Collins, Matthew, ...

Several major invasive bacterial pathogens are encapsulated. Expression of a polysaccharide capsule is essential for survival in the blood, and thus for virulence, but also is a target for host...

Gene Arrays at Pneumocystis carinii Telomeres

Keely, Scott P., Renauld, Hubert, Wakefield, Ann E., Cushion, Melanie T., Smulian, A. George, Fosker, Nigel, ...

In the fungus Pneumocystis carinii, at least three gene families (PRT1, MSR, and MSG) have the potential to generate high-frequency antigenic variation, which is likely to be a strategy by which this...

The genome of Rhizobium leguminosarum has recognizable core and accessory components

Young, J Peter W, Crossman, Lisa C, Johnston, Andrew WB, Thomson, Nicholas R, Ghazoui, Zara F, Hull, Katherine H, ...

The genome sequence of the α-proteobacterial N2-fixing symbiont of legumes, Rhizobium leguminosarum, is described, revealing a 'core' and an 'accessory' component.

Phylogenetic Relationships of the Wolbachia of Nematodes and Arthropods

Fenn, Katelyn, Conlon, Claire, Jones, Martin, Quail, Michael A, Holroyd, Nancy E, Parkhill, Julian, ...

Wolbachia are well known as bacterial symbionts of arthropods, where they are reproductive parasites, but have also been described from nematode hosts, where the symbiotic interaction has features of...

The Complete Genome Sequence and Comparative Genome Analysis of the High Pathogenicity Yersinia enterocolitica Strain 8081

Thomson, Nicholas R, Howard, Sarah, Wren, Brendan W, Holden, Matthew T. G, Crossman, Lisa, Challis, Gregory L, ...

The human enteropathogen, Yersinia enterocolitica, is a significant link in the range of Yersinia pathologies extending from mild gastroenteritis to bubonic plague. Comparison at the genomic level is...

Meningococcal Genetic Variation Mechanisms Viewed through Comparative Analysis of Serogroup C Strain FAM18

Bentley, Stephen D, Vernikos, George S, Snyder, Lori A. S, Churcher, Carol, Arrowsmith, Claire, Chillingworth, Tracey, ...

The bacterium Neisseria meningitidis is commonly found harmlessly colonising the mucosal surfaces of the human nasopharynx. Occasionally strains can invade host tissues causing septicaemia and...

Common inheritance of chromosome Ia associated with clonal expansion of Toxoplasma gondii

Khan, Asis, Böhme, Ulrike, Kelly, Krystyna A., Adlem, Ellen, Brooks, Karen, Simmonds, Mark, ...

Toxoplasma gondii is a globally distributed protozoan parasite that can infect virtually all warm-blooded animals and humans. Despite the existence of a sexual phase in the life cycle, T. gondii has...

Complete Genome of Acute Rheumatic Fever-Associated Serotype M5 Streptococcus pyogenes Strain Manfredo▿

Holden, Matthew T. G., Scott, Annabel, Cherevach, Inna, Chillingworth, Tracey, Churcher, Carol, Cronin, Ann, ...

Comparisons of the 1.84-Mb genome of serotype M5 Streptococcus pyogenes strain Manfredo with previously sequenced genomes emphasized the role of prophages in diversification of S. pyogenes and the...

Multidrug-Resistant Salmonella enterica Serovar Paratyphi A Harbors IncHI1 Plasmids Similar to Those Found in Serovar Typhi▿

Holt, Kathryn E., Thomson, Nicholas R., Wain, John, Phan, Minh Duy, Nair, Satheesh, Hasan, Rumina, ...

Salmonella enterica serovars Typhi and Paratyphi A cause systemic infections in humans which are referred to as enteric fever. Multidrug-resistant (MDR) serovar Typhi isolates emerged in the 1980s,...

Genome plasticity of BCG and impact on vaccine efficacy

Brosch, Roland, Gordon, Stephen V., Garnier, Thierry, Eiglmeier, Karin, Frigui, Wafa, Valenti, Philippe, ...

To understand the evolution, attenuation, and variable protective efficacy of bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccines, Mycobacterium bovis BCG Pasteur 1173P2 has been subjected to comparative...

Genome sequence of a proteolytic (Group I) Clostridium botulinum strain Hall A and comparative analysis of the clostridial genomes

Sebaihia, Mohammed, Peck, Michael W., Minton, Nigel P., Thomson, Nicholas R., Holden, Matthew T.G., Mitchell, Wilfrid J., ...

Clostridium botulinum is a heterogeneous Gram-positive species that comprises four genetically and physiologically distinct groups of bacteria that share the ability to produce botulinum neurotoxin,...