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Evidence of independent acquisition and adaption of ultra-small bacteria to human hosts across the highly diverse yet reduced genomes of the phylum Saccharibacteria
2018-02-02
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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> Recently, we discovered that a member of the Saccharibacteria/TM7 phylum (strain TM7x) isolated from the human oral cavity, has an ultra-small cell size (200-300nm), a highly reduced genome (705 Kbp) with limited de novo biosynthetic capabilities, and a very novel lifestyle as an obligate epibiont on the surface of another bacterium 1 . There has been considerable interest in uncultivated phyl...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 30557e06-fdab-5841-9f1d-c8bc237fa8a1
- DOI
- 10.1101/258137
