Microbiome genome structure drives function

Matthew G Durrant; Ami S Bhatt

doi:10.1038/s41564-019-0473-y

Microbiome genome structure drives function

Nat Microbiol. 2019 Jun;4(6):912-913. doi: 10.1038/s41564-019-0473-y.

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Matthew G Durrant¹, Ami S Bhatt^{2

3}

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¹ Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
² Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. asbhatt@stanford.edu.
³ Division of Hematology, Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. asbhatt@stanford.edu.

Abstract

Differences in microbial genomes can result in vastly different phenotypes and functions. Consequently, it is critical to understand the genome variations that differentiate microbial strains. Here, we discuss recent exciting advances that enable structural variant measurement, their associated phenotypes and the horizon for future discovery.

Microbiome genome structure drives function

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