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    • Brucella genetic variability in wildlife marine mammals populations relates to host preference and ocean distribution 

      Suárez-Esquivel, Marcela; Baker, Kate; Ruiz-Villalobos, Nazareth; Hernandez-Mora, Gabriela; BARQUERO-CALVO, ELIAS; González-Barrientos, Rocío; Castillo-Zeledón, Amanda; Jiménez-Rojas, César; Chacón-Díaz, Carlos; Cloeckaert, Axel; Chaves-Olarte, Esteban; Thomson, Nicholas; Moreno, Edgardo; Guzman-Verri, Caterina (Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2017-07-20)
      Intracellular bacterial pathogens probably arose when their ancestor adapted from a free-living environment to an intracellular one, leading to clonal bacteria with smaller genomes and less sources of genetic plasticity. ...