Genome sequence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, the ultimate opportunistic pathogen (Stover et al. 2000)

Conservation of genome content and virulence determinants among clinical and environmental isolates of P. aeruginosa (Wolfgang et al. 2003)

Comprehensive transposon mutant library of P. aeruginosa (Jacobs et al. 2003)

The P. aeruginosa PAO1 gene collection (Labaer et al. 2004)

Use of model plant hosts and multi-kingdom pathogen P. aeruginosa PA14 to identify virulence factors involved in both plant and animal pathogenesis (Rahme et al. 1997; Rahme et al. 2000)

The multi-kingdom pathogen P. aeruginosa PA14 carries two pathogenicity islands harboring plant and animal virulence genes (He et al. 2004)

Genomic mining type III secretion system effectors in Pseudomonas syringae yields new picks for all TTSS prospectors (Collmer et al. 2002)

The complete genome sequence of P. s. tomato DC3000 (Buell et al. 2003)

Pending complete genome sequences for P. s. syringae B728a and P. s. phaseolicola 1448A (note that DC3000, B728a, and 1448A represent each of the 3 major groups of P. syringae pathovars defined by phylogenetic analysis (Sawada et al. 1999) and insights from comparison of variable regions (Deng et al. 2003)

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