Article
Ribosomal RNA diversity predicts genome diversity in gut bacteria and their relatives.
Nucleic acids research - 1 Jul 2010
Zaneveld Jesse R, Lozupone Catherine, Gordon Jeffrey I, Knight Rob
Abstract excerpt
The mammalian gut is an attractive model for exploring the general question of how habitat impacts the evolution of gene content. Therefore, we have characterized the relationship between 16 S rRNA gene sequence similarity and overall levels of gene conservation in four groups of species: gut specialists and cosmopolitans, each of which can be divided into pathogens and non-pathogens. At short phylogenetic...
Topics
- Adaptation, Physiological
- Bacteria
- Ecosystem
- Evolution, Molecular
- Gastrointestinal Tract
- Genes, Bacterial
- Genetic Variation
- Genome, Bacterial
- Phylogeny
- Plasmids
- RNA, Bacterial
- RNA, Ribosomal, 16S