Diversity of the human intestinal microbial flora

…, L Dethlefsen, M Sargent, SR Gill, KE Nelson… - science, 2005 - science.org
The human endogenous intestinal microflora is an essential “organ” in providing nourishment,
regulating epithelial development, and instructing innate immunity; yet, surprisingly, basic …

Complete genome sequence and comparative analysis of the metabolically versatile Pseudomonas putida KT2440

KE Nelson, C Weinel, IT Paulsen… - Environmental …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Pseudomonas putida is a metabolically versatile saprophytic soil bacterium that has been
certified as a biosafety host for the cloning of foreign genes. The bacterium also has …

Metagenomic analysis of the human distal gut microbiome

…, JI Gordon, DA Relman, CM Fraser-Liggett, KE Nelson - science, 2006 - science.org
The human intestinal microbiota is composed of 10 13 to 10 14 microorganisms whose collective
genome (“microbiome”) contains at least 100 times as many genes as our own genome…

Environmental genome shotgun sequencing of the Sargasso Sea

…, JA Eisen, D Wu, I Paulsen, KE Nelson, W Nelson… - 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] Genome sequence of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

…, RW Hyman, JM Carlton, A Pain, KE Nelson… - Nature, 2002 - nature.com
The parasite Plasmodium falciparum is responsible for hundreds of millions of cases of malaria,
and kills more than one million African children annually. Here we report an analysis of …

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

…, JD Peterson, L Umayam, SR Gill, KE Nelson… - 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 …

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

KE Nelson, RA Clayton, SR Gill, ML Gwinn, RJ Dodson… - 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 …

Complete Genome Sequence of a Virulent Isolate of Streptococcus pneumoniae

H Tettelin, KE Nelson, IT Paulsen, JA Eisen, TD Read… - 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, …

The complete genome sequence of the hyperthermophilic, sulphate-reducing archaeon Archaeoglobus fulgidus

HP Klenk, RA Clayton, JF Tomb, O White, KE Nelson… - Nature, 1997 - nature.com
Archaeoglobus fulgidus is the first sulphur-metabolizing organism to have its genome sequence
determined. Its genome of 2,178,400 base pairs contains 2,436 open reading frames (…

Complete Genome Sequence of Neisseria meningitidis Serogroup B Strain MC58

…, NJ Saunders, J Heidelberg, AC Jeffries, KE Nelson… - 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 (…