Publications
Effect of disruption of a gene encoding an autolysin of Enterococcus faecalis OG1RF. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 1998 ;42(11):2883-8.
. Generation and testing of mutants of Enterococcus faecalis in a mouse peritonitis model. J Infect Dis. 1998 ;178(5):1416-20.
. Analysis of a gene cluster of Enterococcus faecalis involved in polysaccharide biosynthesis. Infect Immun. 2000 ;68(2):815-23.
. Effects of Enterococcus faecalis fsr genes on production of gelatinase and a serine protease and virulence. Infect Immun. 2000 ;68(5):2579-86.
. Characterization of fsr, a regulator controlling expression of gelatinase and serine protease in Enterococcus faecalis OG1RF. J Bacteriol. 2001 ;183(11):3372-82.
. A simple model host for identifying Gram-positive virulence factors. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 ;98(19):10892-7.
. The Enterococcus faecalis fsrB gene, a key component of the fsr quorum-sensing system, is associated with virulence in the rabbit endophthalmitis model. Infect Immun. 2002 ;70(8):4678-81.
. Virulence effect of Enterococcus faecalis protease genes and the quorum-sensing locus fsr in Caenorhabditis elegans and mice. Infect Immun. 2002 ;70(10):5647-50.
. Complete genome sequence of Rickettsia typhi and comparison with sequences of other rickettsiae. J Bacteriol. 2004 ;186(17):5842-55.
. Genome sequence of the Brown Norway rat yields insights into mammalian evolution. Nature. 2004 ;428(6982):493-521.
. The genome sequence of Mannheimia haemolytica A1: insights into virulence, natural competence, and Pasteurellaceae phylogeny. J Bacteriol. 2006 ;188(20):7257-66.
. Genome sequences of the honey bee pathogens Paenibacillus larvae and Ascosphaera apis. Insect Mol Biol. 2006 ;15(5):715-8.
. Evolutionary and biomedical insights from the rhesus macaque genome. Science. 2007 ;316(5822):222-34.
. Genome sequence of Fusobacterium nucleatum subspecies polymorphum - a genetically tractable fusobacterium. PLoS One. 2007 ;2(7):e659.
. High mobility group (HMG-box) genes in the honeybee fungal pathogen Ascosphaera apis. Mycologia. 2007 ;99(4):553-61.
. Paradoxical DNA repair and peroxide resistance gene conservation in Bacillus pumilus SAFR-032. PLoS One. 2007 ;2(9):e928.
. Subtle genetic changes enhance virulence of methicillin resistant and sensitive Staphylococcus aureus. BMC Microbiol. 2007 ;7:99.
. The complete genome of an individual by massively parallel DNA sequencing. Nature. 2008 ;452(7189):872-6.
. The complete genome sequence of Escherichia coli DH10B: insights into the biology of a laboratory workhorse. J Bacteriol. 2008 ;190(7):2597-606.
. Identification and phenotypic characterization of a second collagen adhesin, Scm, and genome-based identification and analysis of 13 other predicted MSCRAMMs, including four distinct pilus loci, in Enterococcus faecium. Microbiology (Reading). 2008 ;154(Pt 10):3199-3211.
. Large scale variation in Enterococcus faecalis illustrated by the genome analysis of strain OG1RF. Genome Biol. 2008 ;9(7):R110.
. Bos taurus genome assembly. BMC Genomics. 2009 ;10:180.
. A collagen-binding adhesin, Acb, and ten other putative MSCRAMM and pilus family proteins of Streptococcus gallolyticus subsp. gallolyticus (Streptococcus bovis Group, biotype I). J Bacteriol. 2009 ;191(21):6643-53.
. The genome sequence of taurine cattle: a window to ruminant biology and evolution. Science. 2009 ;324(5926):522-8.
. Genome-wide survey of SNP variation uncovers the genetic structure of cattle breeds. Science. 2009 ;324(5926):528-32.
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