Environmental genome shotgun sequencing of the Sargasso Sea

JC Venter, K Remington, JF Heidelberg, AL Halpern… - science, 2004 - science.org
We have applied “whole-genome shotgun sequencing” to microbial populations collected
en masse on tangential flow and impact filters from seawater samples collected from the …

[HTML][HTML] The Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling Expedition: Northwest Atlantic through Eastern Tropical Pacific

DB Rusch, AL Halpern, G Sutton, KB Heidelberg… - PLoS …, 2007 - journals.plos.org
The world's oceans contain a complex mixture of micro-organisms that are for the most part,
uncharacterized both genetically and biochemically. We report here a metagenomic study of …

Evidence for lateral gene transfer between Archaea and Bacteria from genome sequence of Thermotoga maritima

…, MS Pratt, CA Phillips, D Richardson, J Heidelberg… - Nature, 1999 - nature.com
The 1,860,725-base-pair genome of Thermotoga maritima MSB8 contains 1,877 predicted
coding regions, 1,014 (54%) of which have functional assignments and 863 (46%) of which …

[HTML][HTML] DNA sequence of both chromosomes of the cholera pathogen Vibrio cholerae

JF Heidelberg, JA Eisen, WC Nelson, RA Clayton… - Nature, 2000 - nature.com
Here we determine the complete genomic sequence of the Gram negative, γ-Proteobacterium
Vibrio cholerae El Tor N16961 to be 4,033,460 base pairs (bp). The genome consists of …

Complete Genome Sequence of a Virulent Isolate of Streptococcus pneumoniae

…, JA Eisen, TD Read, S Peterson, J Heidelberg… - Science, 2001 - science.org
The 2,160,837–base pair genome sequence of an isolate of Streptococcus pneumoniae, a
Gram-positive pathogen that causes pneumonia, bacteremia, meningitis, and otitis media, …

Complete Genome Sequence of Neisseria meningitidis Serogroup B Strain MC58

H Tettelin, NJ Saunders, J Heidelberg, AC Jeffries… - Science, 2000 - science.org
The 2,272,351–base pair genome of Neisseria meningitidis strain MC58 (serogroup B), a
causative agent of meningitis and septicemia, contains 2158 predicted coding regions, 1158 (…

Role of Mobile DNA in the Evolution of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecalis

…, TD Read, DE Fouts, JA Eisen, SR Gill, JF Heidelberg… - Science, 2003 - science.org
The complete genome sequence of Enterococcus faecalisV583, a vancomycin-resistant
clinical isolate, revealed that more than a quarter of the genome consists of probable mobile or …

Genome Sequence of the Radioresistant Bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans R1

O White, JA Eisen, JF Heidelberg, EK Hickey… - Science, 1999 - science.org
The complete genome sequence of the radiation-resistant bacteriumDeinococcus
radiodurans R1 is composed of two chromosomes (2,648,638 and 412,348 base pairs), a …

Identification of a conserved bacterial protein secretion system in Vibrio cholerae using the Dictyostelium host model system

…, WC Nelson, JF Heidelberg… - Proceedings of the …, 2006 - National Acad Sciences
The bacterium Vibrio cholerae, like other human pathogens that reside in environmental
reservoirs, survives predation by unicellular eukaryotes. Strains of the O1 and O139 serogroups …

Genome sequences of Chlamydia trachomatis MoPn and Chlamydia pneumoniae AR39

…, C Shen, SR Gill, JF Heidelberg… - Nucleic acids …, 2000 - academic.oup.com
The genome sequences of Chlamydia trachomatis mouse pneumonitis (MoPn) strain Nigg (1
069 412 nt) and Chlamydia pneumoniae strain AR39 (1 229 853 nt) were determined …