Our Pectobacterium story continues. This one shows the conservation of tailocin and localized HGT of the tail fiber locus across the Pectobacterium genus.
Lakhansing Pardeshi
@lakhanp01.bsky.social @annecmg.bsky.social et al. characterized the genomic diversity of a tailocin and discovered that diversity is maintained through exchange of the tail fiber locus DNA across Pectobacterium, a pathogen causing soft rot.
š doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag106
#genome #evolution
