Publications

Cryptic ecology among host generalist Campylobacter jejuni in domestic animals.

Author(s): Sheppard SK, Cheng L, Méric G, de Haan CP, Llarena AK, Marttinen P, Vidal A, Ridley A, Clifton-Hadley F, Connor TR, Strachan NJ, Forbes K, Colles FM, Jolley KA, Bentley SD, Maiden MC, Hänninen ML, Parkhill J, Hanage WP, Corander J|Journal: Mol Ecol|PMID: 24689900| May 2014

Homologous recombination between bacterial strains is theoretically capable of preventing the separation of daughter clusters, and producing cohesive clouds of…

Historical zoonoses and other changes in host tropism of Staphylococcus aureus, identified by phylogenetic analysis of a population dataset.

Author(s): Shepheard MA, Fleming VM, Connor TR, Corander J, Feil EJ, Fraser C, Hanage WP|Journal: PLoS One|PMID: 23667472| May 2013

Staphylococcus aureus exhibits tropisms to many distinct animal hosts. While spillover events can occur wherever there is an interface between…

Inference on population histories by approximating infinite alleles diffusion.

Author(s): Sirén J, Hanage WP, Corander J|Journal: Mol Biol Evol|PMID: 22993237| February 2013

Reconstruction of the past is an important task of evolutionary biology. It takes place at different points in a hierarchy…

Phylogeographic variation in recombination rates within a global clone of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

Author(s): Castillo-Ramírez S, Corander J, Marttinen P, Aldeljawi M, Hanage WP, Westh H, Boye K, Gulay Z, Bentley SD, Parkhill J, Holden MT, Feil EJ|Journal: Genome Biol|PMID: 23270620| December 2012

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) is a powerful tool for understanding both patterns of descent over time and space (phylogeography) and the…

Population subdivision and the detection of recombination in non-typable Haemophilus influenzae.

Author(s): Connor TR, Corander J, Hanage WP|Journal: Microbiology|PMID: 23038806| December 2012

The disparity in diversity between unencapsulated (non-typable; NT) and encapsulated, serotypable Haemophilus influenzae (Hi) has been recognized for some time.…

Restricted gene flow among hospital subpopulations of Enterococcus faecium.

Author(s): Willems RJ, Top J, van Schaik W, Leavis H, Bonten M, Sirén J, Hanage WP, Corander J|Journal: MBio|PMID: 22807567| July 2012

Enterococcus faecium has recently emerged as an important multiresistant nosocomial pathogen. Defining population structure in this species is required to…

Population structure in the Neisseria, and the biological significance of fuzzy species.

Author(s): Corander J, Connor TR, O'Dwyer CA, Kroll JS, Hanage WP|Journal: J R Soc Interface|PMID: 22072450| June 2012

Phenotypic and genetic variation in bacteria can take bewilderingly complex forms even within a single genus. One of the most…

Detection of recombination events in bacterial genomes from large population samples.

Author(s): Marttinen P, Hanage WP, Croucher NJ, Connor TR, Harris SR, Bentley SD, Corander J|Journal: Nucleic Acids Res|PMID: 22064866| January 2012

Analysis of important human pathogen populations is currently under transition toward whole-genome sequencing of growing numbers of samples collected on…