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Lactobacillus paracasei comparative genomics: towards species pan-genome definition and exploitation of diversity.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Smokvina Tamara, Wels Michiel, Polka Justyna, Chervaux Christian, Brisse Sylvain, Boekhorst Jos, van Hylckama Vlieg Johan E T, Siezen Roland J
Abstract excerpt
Lactobacillus paracasei is a member of the normal human and animal gut microbiota and is used extensively in the food industry in starter cultures for dairy products or as probiotics. With the development of low-cost, high-throughput sequencing techniques it has become feasible to sequence many different strains of one species and to determine its "pan-genome". We have sequenced the genomes of 34 different L....
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