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Volume 23, Number 5—May 2017
Research

Population Genomics of Legionella longbeachae and Hidden Complexities of Infection Source Attribution

Rodrigo Bacigalupe, Diane Lindsay, Giles Edwards, and J. Ross FitzgeraldComments to Author 
Author affiliations: The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, UK (R. Bacigalupe, J.R. Fitzgerald); Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, Scotland, UK (D. Lindsay, G. Edwards)

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Figure 3

Legionella longbeachae plasmid analysis: contigs networks reconstructions for 6 representative L. longbeachae types of plasmid content. The networks of the contigs representing the main chromosome and plasmids comprising the genome obtained by using PLACNET (38), a program enabling reconstruction of plasmids from whole-genome sequence datasets. The sizes of the contig nodes (in gray) are proportional to their lengths; continuous lines correspond to scaffold links. Dashed lines represent BLAST (h

Figure 3. Legionella longbeachae plasmid analysis: contigs networks reconstructions for 6 representative L. longbeachae types of plasmid content. The networks of the contigs representing the main chromosome and plasmids comprising the genome obtained by using PLACNET (38), a program enabling reconstruction of plasmids from whole-genome sequence datasets. The sizes of the contig nodes (in gray) are proportional to their lengths; continuous lines correspond to scaffold links. Dashed lines represent BLAST (https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi) hits to the L. longbeachae (blue) or L. pneumophila (red) strains; intensity of the line is proportional to the hit (white indicates low, black indicates high). Green lines correspond to plasmid contigs. Background colors indicate species relatedness for the main chromosome and plasmids (blue for L. longbeachae, red for L. pneumophila, pink for a combination of both, and yellow for previously unidentified genomic content).

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