Comparative genomics of the Bifidobacterium breve taxon

BMC Genomics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Bottacini, Francesca ^a   O'Connell Motherway, Mary ^a   Kuczynski, Justin ^c   O'Connell, Kerry J ^a   Serafini, Fausta ^b   Duranti, Sabrina ^b   Milani, Christian ^b   Turroni, Francesca ^a   Lugli, Gabriele A ^b   Zomer, Aldert ^d   Zhurina, Daria ^e   Riedel, Christian ^e   Ventura, Marco ^b   Sinderen, Douwe V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c Second Genome   (United States)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bifidobacterium breve; Core genome; Dispensable genome; Evolutionary genomics; Pan genome

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE; SORBITOL; SUGAR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIFIDOBACTERIUM BREVE; ENVIRONMENT; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; HEALTH STATUS; MICROFLORA; MILK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; VAGINA;

BIFIDOBACTERIUM BREVE;

BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE ORDER; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; METABOLOME; METABOLOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84899476585     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-170     Document Type: Article

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