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Inter-individual differences in the gene content of human gut bacterial species.
Genome biology - 21 Apr 2015
Zhu Ana, Sunagawa Shinichi, Mende Daniel R, Bork Peer
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Gene content differences in human gut microbes can lead to inter-individual phenotypic variations such as digestive capacity. It is unclear whether gene content variation is caused by differences in microbial species composition or by the presence of different strains of the same species; the extent of gene content variation in the latter is unknown. Unlike pan-genome studies of cultivable strains,...
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