A human respiratory tract-associated bacterium with an extremely small genome

Kazumasa Fukuda et al. complete a new genome sequence for an uncultured bacterium detected in human respiratory tract named IOLA. The IOLA genome is found to be among the smallest and most AT-rich of known human-associated bacterial genomes and surveillance of clinical samples indicates that IOLA is...

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Main Authors: Kazumasa Fukuda, Kei Yamasaki, Yoshitoshi Ogura, Toshinori Kawanami, Hiroaki Ikegami, Shingo Noguchi, Kentarou Akata, Keisuke Katsura, Kazuhiro Yatera, Hiroshi Mukae, Tetsuya Hayashi, Hatsumi Taniguchi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-05-01
Series:Communications Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02162-6