Analysis of 1321 Eubacterium rectale genomes from metagenomes uncovers complex phylogeographic population structure and subspecies functional adaptations

Abstract Background Eubacterium rectale is one of the most prevalent human gut bacteria, but its diversity and population genetics are not well understood because large-scale whole-genome investigations of this microbe have not been carried out. Results Here, we leverage metagenomic assembly followe...

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Main Authors: Nicolai Karcher, Edoardo Pasolli, Francesco Asnicar, Kun D. Huang, Adrian Tett, Serena Manara, Federica Armanini, Debbie Bain, Sylvia H. Duncan, Petra Louis, Moreno Zolfo, Paolo Manghi, Mireia Valles-Colomer, Roberta Raffaetà, Omar Rota-Stabelli, Maria Carmen Collado, Georg Zeller, Daniel Falush, Frank Maixner, Alan W. Walker, Curtis Huttenhower, Nicola Segata
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-06-01
Series:Genome Biology
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13059-020-02042-y