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

Autor: Kazumasa Fukuda, Kei Yamasaki, Yoshitoshi Ogura, Toshinori Kawanami, Hiroaki Ikegami, Shingo Noguchi, Kentarou Akata, Keisuke Katsura, Kazuhiro Yatera, Hiroshi Mukae, Tetsuya Hayashi, Hatsumi Taniguchi
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Communications Biology, Vol 4, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2399-3642
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-021-02162-6
Popis: 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 in fact a human respiratory tract-associated bacterium.
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