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Genome homology: Compar<strong>in</strong>g multiple<br />

Burkholderia species<br />

A comparative study aimed at mapp<strong>in</strong>g for exam-­‐<br />

ple pathogenic isl<strong>and</strong>s or gene losses among dif-­‐<br />

ferent bacterial genomes can benefit from a graph-­‐<br />

ical representation provided by the BLASTatlas<br />

method. The genus of Burkholderia covers a num-­‐<br />

ber of important animal <strong>and</strong> human pathogens<br />

known to cause melioidosis (B. pseudomallei) <strong>and</strong><br />

pulmonary <strong>in</strong>fection <strong>in</strong> cystic fibrosis (CF) patients<br />

(B. cepacia), whereas B. thail<strong>and</strong>ensis, which is<br />

closely related to B. pseudomallei, rarely gives rise<br />

to diseases <strong>in</strong> humans [29,30]. Both species of B.<br />

thail<strong>and</strong>ensis <strong>and</strong> B. mallei display large chromo-­‐<br />

somal deletions when compared to B. pseudomallei.<br />

However, the more scattered nature of the<br />

Hall<strong>in</strong>, et al.<br />

gene loss observed <strong>in</strong> B. thail<strong>and</strong>ensis suggests<br />

that B. mallei evolved from B. pseudomallei<br />

through the loss of larger regions [31]. These dele-­‐<br />

tions are evident from the atlas shown <strong>in</strong> Figure 6<br />

where the two chromosomes of Burkholderia<br />

pseudomallei 1710b are used as BLASTatlas refer-­‐<br />

ence <strong>in</strong> a comparison with 14 publicly available<br />

Burkholderia genomes (B. thail<strong>and</strong>ensis plus all<br />

species hav<strong>in</strong>g two or more stra<strong>in</strong>s sequenced, see<br />

supplemental data). In addition it is evident that a<br />

strong preference of deletion exist for chromo-­‐<br />

some II. Ong <strong>and</strong> co-­‐workers report that deletions<br />

<strong>in</strong> chromosome II counts for 70% <strong>and</strong> 61% of the<br />

total gene loss <strong>in</strong> B. mallei <strong>and</strong> B. thail<strong>and</strong>ensis,<br />

respectively.<br />

Figure 6 | BLASTatlas of Burkholderia pseudomallei 1710b chromosomes I+II compared with 14<br />

Burkholderia species. Show<strong>in</strong>g from the outermost circles: B. ambifaria (2, purple), B. cenocepacia<br />

(4, red) B. thail<strong>and</strong>ensis (1, green) 10774, B. mallei (4, green), <strong>and</strong> B. pseudomallei (3, blue). Innermost<br />

circles show percent AT, <strong>and</strong> CG skew. Note, that to allow visual comparison between B.<br />

thail<strong>and</strong>ensis <strong>and</strong> B. mallei, both species are colored green: the outermost green lane corresponds<br />

to the s<strong>in</strong>gle B. thail<strong>and</strong>ensis, whereas the rema<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g four green lanes are all B. mallei. GenBank<br />

accession numbers as well as <strong>in</strong>teractive plots are available through the supplemental data section.<br />

http://st<strong>and</strong>ards<strong>in</strong>genomics.org 211

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