Bacterial biogeography of the human digestive tract

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 1; no. 1; p. 170
• Main Authors: Stearns, Jennifer C., Lynch, Michael D. J., Senadheera, Dilani B., Tenenbaum, Howard C., Goldberg, Michael B., Cvitkovitch, Dennis G., Croitoru, Kenneth, Moreno-Hagelsieb, Gabriel, Neufeld, Josh D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 25.11.2011; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 631/114; 631/158/670; 631/326/171; Adult; Bacteria - classification; Bacteria - genetics; Bacteria - isolation & purification; Biodiversity; Biogeography; Biopsy; Colon; Duodenum; Female; Gastrointestinal tract; Gastrointestinal Tract - microbiology; Humanities and Social Sciences; Humans; Male; Metagenome - genetics; Microbial activity; Microflora; multidisciplinary; Organ Specificity; Phylogeny; RNA, Bacterial - genetics; RNA, Ribosomal, 16S - genetics; rRNA 16S; Science; Stomach

We present bacterial biogeography as sampled from the human gastrointestinal tract of four healthy subjects. This study generated >32 million paired-end sequences of bacterial 16S rRNA genes (V3 region) representing >95,000 unique operational taxonomic units (OTUs; 97% similarity clusters), wi...