Upper limit of fraction of genome associated with pathogenesis

Value <=10 %
Organism Bacteria Escherichia coli
Reference Hartl DL, Dykhuizen DE. The population genetics of Escherichia coli. Annu Rev Genet. 1984 18 pp. 38PubMed ID6099090
Primary Source Brenner DJ, Fanning GR, Steigerwalt AG, Orskov I, Orskov F. Polynucleotide sequence relatedness among three groups of pathogenic Escherichia coli strains. Infect Immun. 1972 Sep6(3):pp. 314PubMed ID4564889
Method Members from Escherichia coli strains that cause dysentery-like disease, parenteral infection, and infantile diarrhea were assayed for gross nucleotide sequence relatedness
Comments This fraction is enough to specify some 250 to 300 genes of average size.
Entered by Uri M
ID 102543