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Though commonly used for forensic identification in humans, the technique has recently been used for subtyping a number of pathogenic bacteria [ 17 18 19 20 21 22 ] .
In contrast, infection of the intestinal epithelium by pathogenic bacteria elicits a strong inflammatory response that includes disruption of the epithelial layer by mechanisms of both cytopathicity and apoptosis [ 56].
Mycorrhizal test sequences are more difficult to differentiate than sequences from the rhizobacterial or pathogenic associations, as seen by the diminished variation about the identity function in mycorrhizal comparisons (Figure 5b), contrasted with comparisons from pathogen-infected and nodulating root libraries (Figures 5aand c, respectively).
This phylogenetic distribution hinders reconstruction of the large-genome ancestors of pathogenic lineages and of the events leading from a large genome to a very small one.
Possible explanations for such cases include duplications which we may have missed, mutations in unknown enhancers or translation modifiers hidden in exons or introns, mutations that create novel splice sites and changes in the coding region which might be pathogenic but which, due to our lack of knowledge, are thought to be polymorphic.