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The maize brown midrib mutants have a reduction in lignin content and an altered lignin subunit composition [ 13 ] . Lignin is a complex hydrophobic polymer made of substituted p -hydroxy-cinnamyl alcohol units that differ in their extent of hydroxylation and methoxylation (for recent reviews see [ 14 15 ] ). Lignin is important for the transport of water and plant rigidity and it serves as a defense mechanism against pests and pathogens.
In bacteria, the majority of these genes encoded different types of surface molecules, which, in pathogens, are involved in interaction with substrate cells.
Zoonotic pathogens, such as
The genus Mycobacterium contains species that range from fast-growingsaprophytes such as M. smegmatis and M. fortuitum to slow-growing pathogens such as M. leprae , M. tuberculosis and M. paratuberculosis . Although the chromosomal origin of replication has been studied in some mycobacteria [ 7 8 ] , the genetic organization of the origin of replication in M. paratuberculosis has been previously unknown.
For pathogens with high horizontal transmission rates, resistant bacteria will spread rapidly once they have emerged, and prevalence will be maintained at a steady state by horizontal transmission.