Sentences with phrase «bacterial genome size»

When microbiomes are studied using metagenomics — sequencing their total DNA — differences in bacterial genome size can bias the estimation of the proportion of each gene in the sample.

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The cost difference is due, in part, to the smaller scale of the MyMicrobes operation, and in part to the size of the bacterial genome, which Bork says contains around 5 billion letters of DNA, compared to the 3.3 billion in the human genome.

The tag - team relationship and the tiny size of the Tremblaya genome suggest each bacterial partner has lost some of its genes and their corresponding functions over evolutionary history.

Besides influencing the function of the microbiome, changes in bacterial genes also affect total genome size, which can bias the estimation of the proportion of each gene in the sample.