Table 1 Citations linked to originally sequenced bacterial genomes

Salmonella enterica subsp. Enterica serovar Paratyphi A 9150

227 Citations

Crump et al., 2010. Global trends in typhoid and paratyphoid Fever. Clin Infect Dis 50:241–246.

Yang F, et al., 2005. Genome dynamics and diversity of Shigella species, the etiologic agents of bacillary dysentery. Nucleic acids research 33:6445–6458.

Thomson NR, et., 2008. Comparative genome analysis of Salmonella Enteritidis PT4 and Salmonella Gallinarum 287/91 provides insights into evolutionary and host adaptation pathways. Genome research 18:1624–1637.

V.cholerae O1 N16961

1290 Citations

Thompson FL, et al., 2004. Biodiversity of vibrios. Microbiology and molecular biology reviews 68:403–431.

Makino K, et al., 2003. Genome sequence of Vibrio parahaemolyticus: a pathogenic mechanism distinct from that of V cholerae. The Lancet 361:743–749.

Zhu J, et al., 2002. Quorum-sensing regulators control virulence gene expression in Vibrio cholerae. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99:3129–3134.

Merrell DS et., 2002. Host-induced epidemic spread of the cholera bacterium. Nature 417:642–645.

C. crescentus CB15

417 Citations

Hu P, et al., 2005. Whole-genome transcriptional analysis of heavy metal stresses in Caulobacter crescentus. Journal of bacteriology 187:8437–8449.

Laub MT, et al., 2002. Genes directly controlled by CtrA, a master regulator of the Caulobacter cell cycle. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99:44632–4637.

Hottes AK, et al., 2005. DnaA coordinates replication initiation and cell cycle transcription in Caulobacter crescentus. Molecular microbiology 58:1340–1353.

Reisenauer A, et al., 2002. DNA methylation affects the cell cycle transcription of the CtrA global regulator in Caulobacter. The EMBO journal 21:4969–4977.