A new study reports comparative genomic analysis of 52 geographically diverse strains of Chlamydia trachomatis. The authors reconstruct a genome-wide phylogeny of the species and report extensive genome-wide recombination across multiple lineages of this intracellular bacterial pathogen.
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Joseph, S., Read, T. Genome-wide recombination in Chlamydia trachomatis. Nat Genet 44, 364–366 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.2225
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