Article
Station and train surface microbiomes of Mexico City’s metro (subway/underground)
2019-08-14
Abstract excerpt
The metro is one of the more representative urban systems of Mexico City, and it transports approximately 4.5 million commuters every day. Large crowds promote the constant exchange of human and environmental microbes. In this study, we determined the bacterial diversity profile of the Mexico City subway by massive sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene. We identified a total of 50,197 operative taxonomic units (OTUs) an...
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- Literature Corpus work
- da8b1636-129a-5fed-b81a-b1f3d5d35bc4
- DOI
- 10.1101/735027
