Sentences with phrase «study bacterial genome»

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There was an ancient paradigm about the «fitness cost of antibiotic resistance,» but the emergence of the new technologies of high - throughput sequencing has changed the field, allowing researchers to study bacterial pathogenesis at the genome scale,» said Dr. David Skurnik, senior author of a new Bioessays article.

In the current study, scientists screened more than 60,000 bacterial genomes for the presence of proteins whose chemical makeup suggested they could be capable of forming prions.

«Corn is really good at responding to bacterial inoculation, but it's very big and takes a long time to produce seeds and also the genome is complex,» said Beverly Agtuca, an MU Ph.D. student who worked on the study.

The second step, constructing a synthetic bacterial genome, has now been accomplished with this study.

CRISPR, originally discovered by biologists studying the bacterial immune system, consists of a DNA - cutting enzyme called Cas9 and short RNA guide strands that target specific sequences of the genome, telling Cas9 where to make its cuts.

The study results were very surprising: For most of these clinical measures, the association with bacterial genomes was at least as strong, and in some cases stronger, than the association with the host's human genome.

In a study published online today in Genome Research, scientists developed a new tool to examine genetic differences within bacterial species and uncover novel transmission patterns in mother - infant microbiomes and marine metagenomes not previously appreciated by species - level analyses.

A study published in Genome Biology, led by Anders Andersson at KTH Royal Institute of Technology / SciLifeLab, shows that the closest relatives of bacterial plankton in the Baltic Sea are not found in oceans or freshwater lakes, but in other brackish environments.

In their recent study, the team devised a way that ensures the memory element is not lost from the genome during the evolution of the bacterial population over more than a hundred generations.

Evaluation of phylogenetic reconstruction methods using bacterial whole genomes: a simulation based study

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.

In this study we make use of the recently completed Danaus plexippus genome to identify a bacterial LGT of a glycosyl hydrolase from Enterococcus, show that the LGT is ancient in Lepidoptera, and for one species provide molecular evidence for its insertion into the genome.