title: Genomic islands in Photorhabdus.
abstract: Genomic islands are responsible for unique aspects of bacterial behavior such as symbiosis and pathogenicity. Photorhabdus luminescens is a pathogen of insects that spends part of its lifecycle in symbiosis with a nematode. Here, we describe novel genomic islands from Photorhabdus that are involved in symbiosis and pathogenicity, and discuss the inter-relationship between virulence factors used against invertebrates and vertebrates.
authors.affiliation: Dept of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, South Building, UK.
authors.forename: Nicholas R
authors.initials: NR
authors.lastname: Waterfield
authors.forename: Phillip J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Daborn
authors.forename: Richard H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: ffrench-Constant
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D016680:Genome, Bacterial; D007313:Insecta / Q000382:microbiology; D008018:Life Cycle Stages; D008957:Models, Genetic; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D020637:Photorhabdus / Q000235:genetics* / Q000472:pathogenicity; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D037521:Virulence Factors / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D037521:Virulence Factors