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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, October 2008, p. 6447-6451, Vol. 74, No. 20
0099-2240/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.01024-08
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Extensive Genome Rearrangements and Multiple Horizontal Gene Transfers in a Population of Pyrococcus Isolates from Vulcano Island, Italy{triangledown} ,{dagger}

James R. White,1 Patricia Escobar-Paramo,1 Emmanuel F. Mongodin,2,{ddagger} Karen E. Nelson,2 and Jocelyne DiRuggiero1*

University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland,1 J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland2

Received 7 May 2008/ Accepted 14 August 2008

The extent of chromosome rearrangements in Pyrococcus isolates from marine hydrothermal vents in Vulcano Island, Italy, was evaluated by high-throughput genomic methods. The results illustrate the dynamic nature of the genomes of the genus Pyrococcus and raise the possibility of a connection between rapidly changing environmental conditions and adaptive genomic properties.

* Corresponding author. Present address: Johns Hopkins University, Department of Biology, 3400 N. Charles Street, 127 Mudd Hall, Baltimore, MD 21218. Phone: (410) 516-8498. Fax: (410) 516-5213. E-mail: jdiruggiero{at}jhu.edu

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 22 August 2008.

{dagger} Supplemental material for this article may be found at http://aem.asm.org/.

{ddagger} Present address: University of Maryland School of Medicine, Institute for Genome Sciences, Baltimore, MD.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, October 2008, p. 6447-6451, Vol. 74, No. 20
0099-2240/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.01024-08
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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