The geographic distribution, prevalence of infection, carrier potential, mode of transmission, and pathogenicity of bloodborne Bartonella spp. in sea turtles await additional studies.
While much of the genome sequencing of rickettsiae has focused on medically important species, it is imperative to consider the species non-pathogenic to humans for comparative biological reasons, in particular for determining the mode of insect-cell invasion and pathogenicity.
Currently, the geographic distribution, mode of transmission, reservoir potential, and pathogenicity of bloodborne Bartonella species in porpoises have not been determined.
The Exomiser implements PHIVE, PHenotypic Interpretation of Variants in Exomes, an algorithm that integrates the calculation of phenotype similarity between human diseases and genetically modified mouse models, with evaluation of the variants according to allele frequency, pathogenicity and mode of inheritance (Robinson et al., 2014).
Information on the molecular basis of pathogenicity of the clubroot pathogen Plasmodiophora brassicae is very limited.
The following properties are useful for discriminating between virus species (13 ): genome sequence relatedness, natural host range, cell and tissue tropism, pathogenicity and cytopathology, mode of transmission, physicochemical properties, and antigenic properties.
It is desirable to apply organelle transfer to the studies of pathogenicity and genetics of this important fungal plant pathogen.
Another important trait of pathogenicity is biofilm formation.
However, there is currently no direct proof of pathogenicity.
