To examine the correlations between virulence genotyping and multilocus sequence analysis of Escherichia coli from poultry and humans, 88 isolates were examined. The isolates were selected from a population of over 1000 based on their assignment to nine different virulence genotyping clusters. Clustering based on multilocus sequence analysis mostly correlated with virulence genotyping, although...

Among insects, Wolbachia is an exceedingly common bacterial endosymbiont with a range of consequences infection. Despite the frequency infection, very little known about this bacteria’s diversity and role within hosts, especially ant hosts. In study, we analyze occurrence across spiny ants (Polyrhachis), large geographically diverse genus. Polyrhachis samples from throughout host genus’ phyloge...

Advances in the understanding of biological radiations along tropical mountains depend on the knowledge of phylogenetic relationships among species. Here we present a species-level molecular phylogeny based on a multilocus dataset for the Andean hummingbird genus Coeligena. We compare this phylogeny to previous hypotheses of evolutionary relationships and use it as a framework to understand pat...