The prevalence of species and strains in the human microbiome: a resource for experimental efforts.

Experimental efforts to characterize the human microbiota often use bacterial strains that were chosen for historical rather than biological reasons. Here, we report an analysis of 380 whole-genome shotgun samples from 100 subjects from the NIH Human Microbiome Project. By mapping their reads to 1,7...

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Main Authors: Laurens Kraal, Sahar Abubucker, Karthik Kota, Michael A Fischbach, Makedonka Mitreva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4020798?pdf=render