New approaches in the systematics of rickettsiae.

ABSTRACT: The development of a formal order analysis (FOA) allowed constructing a classification of 49 genomes of Rickettsiaceae family representatives. Recently FOA has been extended with new tools-'Map of genes,' 'Matrix of similarity' and 'Locality-sensitive hashing'-for a more in-depth study of the structure of rickettsial genomes. The new classification confirmed and supplemented the previously constructed one by determining the position of Rickettsia africae str. ESF-5, R. heilongjiangensis 054, R. monacensis str. IrR/Munich, R. montanensis str. OSU 85-930, R. raoultii str. Khabarovsk, R. rhipicephali str. 3-7-female6-CWPP and Rickettsiales bacterium str. Ac37b. The 'Map of genes' demonstrated the complete genomes and their components in a graphical form. The 'Matrix of similarity' was applied

SUBMITTER: Shpynov SN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5913362 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature