Bioinformatics sheds light on evolutionary origin of Rickettsia virulence genes
Thursday, March 12, 2009 - 06:07
in Biology & Nature
Scientists from the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech, the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and the University of Louisville have revealed that genes for a specific type of molecular secretion system in Rickettsia, a structure that is linked in many cases to virulence, have been conserved over many years of evolution.