Non Mycobacterial Virulence Genes in the Genome of the Emerging Pathogen Mycobacterium abscessus

Fabienne Ripoll; Sophie Pasek; Chantal Schenowitz; Carole Dossat; Valérie Barbe; Martin Rottman; Edouard Macheras; Beate Heym; Jean-Louis Herrmann; Mamadou Daffé; Roland Brosch; Jean-Loup Risler; Jean-Louis Gaillard

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0005660

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Non Mycobacterial Virulence Genes in the Genome of the Emerging Pathogen Mycobacterium abscessus

Fabienne Ripoll ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Fabienne Ripoll, Sophie Pasek

Affiliation EA3647, UFR de médecine Paris Ile-de-France Ouest, Université de Versailles St-Quentin, Garches, France
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Sophie Pasek ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Fabienne Ripoll, Sophie Pasek

Affiliation Unité de Recherche Systématique, Adaptation, Evolution (UMR 7138), Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, Paris, France
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Chantal Schenowitz,

Affiliation Génoscope, Evry, France
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Carole Dossat,

Affiliation Génoscope, Evry, France
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Valérie Barbe,

Affiliation Génoscope, Evry, France
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Martin Rottman,

Affiliation EA3647, UFR de médecine Paris Ile-de-France Ouest, Université de Versailles St-Quentin, Garches, France
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Edouard Macheras,

Affiliations EA3647, UFR de médecine Paris Ile-de-France Ouest, Université de Versailles St-Quentin, Garches, France, Laboratoire de Microbiologie, Hôpital Ambroise Paré (Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris), Boulogne, France
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Beate Heym,

Affiliations EA3647, UFR de médecine Paris Ile-de-France Ouest, Université de Versailles St-Quentin, Garches, France, Laboratoire de Microbiologie, Hôpital Ambroise Paré (Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris), Boulogne, France
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Jean-Louis Herrmann,

Affiliation EA3647, UFR de médecine Paris Ile-de-France Ouest, Université de Versailles St-Quentin, Garches, France
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Mamadou Daffé,

Affiliation Institut de Pharmacologie et Biologie Structurale (UMR 5089), Toulouse, France
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Roland Brosch,

Affiliation Intitut Pasteur, UP Pathogénomique Mycobactérienne Intégrée, Paris, France
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Jean-Loup Risler,

Affiliation Laboratoire Statistique et Génome, UMR CNRS-INRA 8071-1152, Evry, France
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Jean-Louis Gaillard

* E-mail: jean-louis.gaillard@apr.aphp.fr

Affiliations EA3647, UFR de médecine Paris Ile-de-France Ouest, Université de Versailles St-Quentin, Garches, France, Laboratoire de Microbiologie, Hôpital Ambroise Paré (Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris), Boulogne, France
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Non Mycobacterial Virulence Genes in the Genome of the Emerging Pathogen Mycobacterium abscessus

Fabienne Ripoll,
Sophie Pasek,
Chantal Schenowitz,
Carole Dossat,
Valérie Barbe,
Martin Rottman,
Edouard Macheras,
Beate Heym,
Jean-Louis Herrmann,
Mamadou Daffé

Published: June 19, 2009
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0005660

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Figure 5

Posted by DaveUssery on 23 Sep 2009 at 06:27 GMT

What is the scale in Figure 5? The units are "0.2", "0.7", and "0.4" for the bars below panes a,b, and c, respectively. Does 0.2 in panel a represent 0.2 amino acid difference per thousand aa? 0.2 units on the Manhattan distance scale? 0.2 ducks for every aardvark??

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