Insights into ancestry and adaptive evolution of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex from analysis of the emerging pathogen Mycobacterium riyadhense
Q. Guan, M. Garbati, S. Mfarrej, T. AlMutairi, A. Smyth, A. Singh, S. Fagbo, J. Browne, M. A. urRahman, A. Alruwaili, A. Hoosen, C. Meehan, C. Nakajima, Y. Suzuki, A. Bhatt, , A. Pain
This paper characterizes the genome of Mycobacterium riyadhense, showing it shares ancestry with Mycobacterium tuberculosis and provides insights into the evolutionary path of the MTBC.
bioRxiv · Nov 8, 2019 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology