Complete genome of a new Firmicutes species belonging to the dominant human colonic microbiota ('Ruminococcus bicirculans') reveals two chromosomes and a selective capacity to utilize plant glucans

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2879-2890

  Wegmann, Udo ^a   Louis, Petra ^b   Goesmann, Alexander ^c   Henrissat, Bernard ^d   Duncan, Sylvia H ^b   Flint, Harry J ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FIRMICUTES; RUMINOCOCCUS;

BACTERIAL DNA; BETA GLUCAN; CELLULOSE; HEMICELLULOSE; POLYSACCHARIDE; RNA 16S; XYLAN;

BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; COLON; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; PHYLOGENY; RUMINOCOCCUS;

BETA-GLUCANS; CELLULOSE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; COLON; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MICROBIOTA; PHYLOGENY; POLYSACCHARIDES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RUMINOCOCCUS; XYLANS;

EID: 84906943565     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12217     Document Type: Article

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