Genomic inversion drives small colony variant formation and increased virulence in P. aeruginosa
Sharon Irvine, Boyke Bunk, Hannah K. Bayes, Cathrin Sprӧer, James P. R. Connolly, Anne Six, Thomas J. Evans, Andrew J. Roe, Jӧrg Overmann, Daniel Walker
The paper identifies a genomic inversion as the mechanism driving small colony variant formation and increased virulence in P. aeruginosa during chronic infection.
bioRxiv · Jul 9, 2018 · PreprintMicrobiology