Horizontal transfer of probable chicken-pathogenicity chromosomal islands between Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus agnetis

• Douglas D. Rhoads ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: drhoads@uark.edu

  ¶‡ DDR and JP also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7307-4754

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• Jeff Pummil ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ DDR and JP also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States of America, Arkansas High Performance Computing Center, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States of America

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• Nnamdi S. Ekesi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nnamdi S. Ekesi, Adnan A. K. Alrubaye

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States of America, Department of Natural Sciences, Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, OK, United States of America

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• Adnan A. K. Alrubaye

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nnamdi S. Ekesi, Adnan A. K. Alrubaye

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

  Affiliation Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States of America

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