Assembly of 913 microbial genomes from metagenomic sequencing of the cow rumen

Nature Communications

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Stewart, Robert D ^a   Auffret, Marc D ^b   Warr, Amanda ^a   Wiser, Andrew H ^c   Press, Maximilian O ^c   Langford, Kyle W ^c   Liachko, Ivan ^c   Snelling, Timothy J ^d   Dewhurst, Richard J ^b   Walker, Alan W ^d   Roehe, Rainer ^b   Watson, Mick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^c Phase Genomics   (United States)

^d ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; DATA SET; DATABASE; ENZYME; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; GENOMICS; METABOLISM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARCHAEAL GENOME; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOMASS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; COW; ENZYMATIC DEGRADATION; FEMALE; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL GENOME; MICROBIOME; NONHUMAN; RUMEN; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; BOVINE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CATTLE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; PHYLOGENY; RUMEN;

EID: 85042777904     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-03317-6     Document Type: Article

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