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A family tree can be very illuminating, but there can be some surprises in those branches, too. A recent mBio paper delves into the ancestry of Streptococcus agalactiae, a.k.a. Group B Strep (GBS), and uncovers some unexpected facts about the bacterium’s family history. Sørensen at al. examined 15 housekeeping genes to plot the phylogeny of a collection of 238 bovine and human GBS isolates from nine countries to determine what evolutionary processes might be behind the emergence of the disease.
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