Neisseria meningitidis Nm10259 Genome sequencing and assembly. Neisseria meningitidis Nm10259

The study of genetic variation is fundamental for the understanding of bacterial genome evolution, and serves the key to untangle the evolution and epidemiology of bacterial pathogens. Neisseria meningitidis is one of the most intriguing pathogens in genomic studies due to its dynamic population structure and complex forms of pathogenicity. In our study, we sequenced Neisseria meningitidis strains of the same multi-locus sequece type to explore the contribution of homologous recombination to genomic variation between closely related strains of Neisseria meningitidis.