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The ubiquity of RNA viruses hints that our genomes might also contain an innate, yet highly adapted, defence system that targets this abundant class of pathogens by manipulating their mutation rate.
The mouse colony was monitored for specific pathogens by The Jackson Laboratory's routine surveillance program (see http://www.jax.orgfor specific pathogens).
The genetic organization of the origin of replication has been characterized in several Gram-positive pathogens including B. subtilis , S. coelicolor , M. tuberculosis , M. avium , M. leprae , and M. smegmatis [ 8 ] . The results of our investigation on the oriC region of M. paratuberculosis show that each of the 15 primer pairs, designed from M. avium sequence data, resulted in the successful amplification and subsequent sequencing of an ~11 kb region of the M. paratuberculosis genome.
Fungal pathogens can be important selective forces on plants in habitats favorable to fungal development, but estimating the magnitude of selection by fungal pathogens in nature is difficult.
Viruses are intracellular pathogens that are subject to intense selective pressures during their ongoing battles within the host.