A new genomic blueprint of the human gut microbiota

Nature

Volumn 568, Issue 7753, 2019, Pages 499-504

  Almeida, Alexandre ^a,b   Mitchell, Alex L ^a   Boland, Miguel ^a   Forster, Samuel C ^b,c,d   Gloor, Gregory B ^e   Tarkowska, Aleksandra ^a   Lawley, Trevor D ^b   Finn, Robert D ^a  

^a EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c HUDSON INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; GENOME; GENOMICS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; TAXONOMY;

ACTINOBACTERIA; AFRICA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CLOSTRIDIUM; COLLINSELLA; CORIOBACTERIACEAE; FIRMICUTES; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTESTINE FLORA; METAGENOME; MOLLICUTES; NONHUMAN; PEPTOSTREPTOCOCCACEAE; PREVOTELLA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOBACTERIA; RUMINOCOCCACEAE; SOUTH AMERICAN; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AFRICA; SOUTH AMERICA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

BACTERIA; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; HUMANS; METAGENOME; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 85062538500     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-0965-1     Document Type: Article

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