{"id":232246,"date":"2026-02-27T21:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T03:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/telomere-to-telomere-assembly-detects-genomic-diversity-in-canadian-strains-of-borrelia-burgdorferi"},"modified":"2026-02-27T21:10:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T03:10:00","slug":"telomere-to-telomere-assembly-detects-genomic-diversity-in-canadian-strains-of-borrelia-burgdorferi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/telomere-to-telomere-assembly-detects-genomic-diversity-in-canadian-strains-of-borrelia-burgdorferi","title":{"rendered":"Telomere-to-telomere assembly detects genomic diversity in Canadian strains of Borrelia burgdorferi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/telomere-to-telomere-assembly-detects-genomic-diversity-in-canadian-strains-of-borrelia-burgdorferi2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amin et al. present telomere-to-telomere assemblies of nine <i><i>Borrelia<\/i> <i>burgdorferi<\/i><\/i> strains from Canada, uncovering the diversity at chromosome ends and plasmid profiles. They identify an <i>lp28-1a<\/i> plasmid subtype and detect plasmid-chromosome recombination, offering insights into genomic plasticity and potential mechanisms of adaptation in Borrelia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amin et al. present telomere-to-telomere assemblies of nine Borrelia burgdorferi strains from Canada, uncovering the diversity at chromosome ends and plasmid profiles. They identify an lp28-1a plasmid subtype and detect plasmid-chromosome recombination, offering insights into genomic plasticity and potential mechanisms of adaptation in Borrelia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}