Possible biased virulence attenuation in the Senegal strain of Ehrlichia ruminantium by ntrX gene conversion from an inverted segmental duplication

• Jonathan L. Gordon,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations CIRAD, UMR ASTRE, Petit-Bourg, Guadeloupe, France, ASTRE, CIRAD, INRAe, Univ Montpellier, Montpellier, France

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• Adela S. Oliva Chavez,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations CIRAD, UMR ASTRE, Petit-Bourg, Guadeloupe, France, ASTRE, CIRAD, INRAe, Univ Montpellier, Montpellier, France

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• Dominique Martinez,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation CIRAD, F-97130, Capesterre-Belle-Eau, Guadeloupe, France

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• Nathalie Vachiery,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation ASTRE, CIRAD, INRAe, Univ Montpellier, Montpellier, France

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• Damien F. Meyer

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: damien.meyer@cirad.fr

  Affiliations CIRAD, UMR ASTRE, Petit-Bourg, Guadeloupe, France, ASTRE, CIRAD, INRAe, Univ Montpellier, Montpellier, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2735-176X

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