Ultrafast Evolution and Loss of CRISPRs Following a Host Shift in a Novel Wildlife Pathogen, Mycoplasma gallisepticum

• Nigel F. Delaney,

  Affiliation Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Susan Balenger,

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America

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• Camille Bonneaud,

  Current address: Station d'Ecologie Expérimentale du CNRS a Moulis USR 2936 Moulis, Saint-Girons, France

  Affiliation Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Christopher J. Marx,

  Affiliation Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Geoffrey E. Hill,

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America

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• Naola Ferguson-Noel,

  Affiliation Poultry Diagnostic and Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

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• Peter Tsai,

  Affiliation Bioinformatics Institute, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

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• Allen Rodrigo,

  Current address: National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

  Affiliation Bioinformatics Institute, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

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• Scott V. Edwards

  * E-mail: sedwards@fas.harvard.edu

  Affiliation Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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