Acquisition through Horizontal Gene Transfer of Plasmid pSMA198 by Streptococcus macedonicus ACA-DC 198 Points towards the Dairy Origin of the Species

• Konstantinos Papadimitriou ,

  * E-mail: kpapadimitriou@aua.gr

  Affiliation Laboratory of Dairy Research, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Agricultural University of Athens, Iera Odos 75, 118 55, Athens, Greece

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• Rania Anastasiou,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Dairy Research, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Agricultural University of Athens, Iera Odos 75, 118 55, Athens, Greece

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• Eleni Maistrou,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Dairy Research, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Agricultural University of Athens, Iera Odos 75, 118 55, Athens, Greece

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• Thomas Plakas,

  Affiliations Laboratory of Dairy Research, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Agricultural University of Athens, Iera Odos 75, 118 55, Athens, Greece, Department of Cell Biology and Biophysics, Faculty of Biology, University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, 157 01, Athens, Greece

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• Nikos C. Papandreou,

  Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Biophysics, Faculty of Biology, University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, 157 01, Athens, Greece

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• Stavros J. Hamodrakas,

  Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Biophysics, Faculty of Biology, University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, 157 01, Athens, Greece

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• Stéphanie Ferreira,

  Affiliation Genoscreen, Service of Research, Development and Innovation in Health and Environment, Campus de l’Institut Pasteur, 1 rue du Professeur Calmette, 59000, Lille, France

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• Philip Supply,

  Affiliations Genoscreen, Service of Research, Development and Innovation in Health and Environment, Campus de l’Institut Pasteur, 1 rue du Professeur Calmette, 59000, Lille, France, Institut Pasteur de Lille, Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille (CIIL), F-59019, Lille, France, Inserm U1019, F-59019, Lille, France, CNRS UMR8204, F-59019, Lille, France, Univ Lille de Nord France, F-59019, Lille, France

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• Pierre Renault,

  Affiliations INRA, UMR1319 Micalis, Jouy-en-Josas, F-78352, France, AgroParisTech, UMR Micalis, Jouy-en-Josas, F-78352, France

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• Bruno Pot,

  Affiliations Institut Pasteur de Lille, Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille (CIIL), F-59019, Lille, France, Inserm U1019, F-59019, Lille, France, CNRS UMR8204, F-59019, Lille, France, Univ Lille de Nord France, F-59019, Lille, France

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• Effie Tsakalidou

  Affiliation Laboratory of Dairy Research, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Agricultural University of Athens, Iera Odos 75, 118 55, Athens, Greece

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