Microbial strain-level population structure & genetic diversity from metagenomes

Genome Research

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 626-638

  Truong, Duy Tin ^a   Tett, Adrian ^a   Pasolli, Edoardo ^a   Huttenhower, Curtis ^b,c   Segata, Nicola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN; ALISTIPES; ALISTIPES PUTREDINIS; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDES DOREI; BACTEROIDES UNIFORMIS; BACTEROIDES VULGATUS; COMMENSAL; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; EUBACTERIUM; EUBACTERIUM RECTALE; EUROPEAN; FAECALIBACTERIUM PRAUSNITZII; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHY; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; LIMIT OF DETECTION; METAGENOME; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; PREVOTELLA; PREVOTELLA COPRI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUMINOCOCCUS; RUMINOCOCCUS BROMII; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOUTH AMERICAN; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; ALGORITHM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; HUMAN GENOME; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROFLORA; MOLECULAR TYPING; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; BACTEROIDES; EUBACTERIUM; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; METAGENOME; MICROBIOTA; MOLECULAR TYPING; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PREVOTELLA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 85017527948     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.216242.116     Document Type: Article

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