Publication Date:
2005-04-23
Description:
The species complexity of microbial communities and challenges in culturing representative isolates make it difficult to obtain assembled genomes. Here we characterize and compare the metabolic capabilities of terrestrial and marine microbial communities using largely unassembled sequence data obtained by shotgun sequencing DNA isolated from the various environments. Quantitative gene content analysis reveals habitat-specific fingerprints that reflect known characteristics of the sampled environments. The identification of environment-specific genes through a gene-centric comparative analysis presents new opportunities for interpreting and diagnosing environments.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Tringe, Susannah Green -- von Mering, Christian -- Kobayashi, Arthur -- Salamov, Asaf A -- Chen, Kevin -- Chang, Hwai W -- Podar, Mircea -- Short, Jay M -- Mathur, Eric J -- Detter, John C -- Bork, Peer -- Hugenholtz, Philip -- Rubin, Edward M -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2005 Apr 22;308(5721):554-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute, 2800 Mitchell Drive, Walnut Creek, CA 94598, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15845853" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Archaea/classification/genetics/metabolism
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Bacteria/classification/*genetics/metabolism
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Bacterial Proteins/genetics/metabolism
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Biodiversity
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Biofilms
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Bone and Bones/microbiology
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Computational Biology
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*Ecosystem
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Energy Metabolism
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Eukaryotic Cells/metabolism
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Gene Library
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Genes
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Genes, Bacterial
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*Genome
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Genome, Bacterial
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*Genomics
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Operon
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Phylogeny
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Polymerase Chain Reaction
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Proteins/genetics/metabolism
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Proteome
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Seawater/*microbiology
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Sequence Analysis, DNA
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*Soil Microbiology
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Whales/*microbiology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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