Intestinal microbiota domination under extreme selective pressures characterized by metagenomic read cloud sequencing and assembly

Abstract Background Low diversity of the gut microbiome, often progressing to the point of intestinal domination by a single species, has been linked to poor outcomes in patients undergoing hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). Our ability to understand how certain organisms attain intestinal do...

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Main Authors: Joyce B. Kang, Benjamin A. Siranosian, Eli L. Moss, Niaz Banaei, Tessa M. Andermann, Ami S. Bhatt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-12-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-019-3073-1