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Abstract
Bacterial core and accessory genome components are analogous to the operating system and applications of smartphones. The core genome provides stable taxonomy and species lists, but phenotypes reflect the mobile pool of accessory genes. This suggests changes to the ways we define bacterial species and describe bacterial communities.Entities:
Keywords: accessory gene; core genome; smartphone
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Year: 2016 PMID: 27680981 DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2016.09.002
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Trends Microbiol ISSN: 0966-842X Impact factor: 17.079