Genome and Methylome analysis of a phylogenetic novel Campylobacter coli cluster with C. jejuni introgression.

ABSTRACT: The intriguing recent discovery of Campylobacter coli strains, especially of clade 1, that (i) possess mosaic C. coli/C. jejuni alleles, (ii) demonstrate mixed multilocus sequence types (MLSTs) and (iii) have undergone genome-wide introgression has led to the speculation that these two species may be involved in an accelerated rate of horizontal gene transfer that is progressively leading to the merging of both species in a process coined 'despeciation'. In an MLST-based neighbour-joining tree of a number of C. coli and C. jejuni isolates of different clades, three prominent Campylobacter isolates formed a seemingly separate cluster besides the previously described C. coli and C. jejuni clades. In the light of the suspected, ongoing g

SUBMITTER: Dieckmann AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8627207 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature