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
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Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2021-05-01
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Series: | Communications Biology
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02162-6
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