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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron
SUBMITTER: Andrew Goodman
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-17712 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Goodman Andrew L AL McNulty Nathan P NP Zhao Yue Y Leip Douglas D Mitra Robi D RD Lozupone Catherine A CA Knight Rob R Gordon Jeffrey I JI
Cell host & microbe 20090901 3
The human gut microbiota is a metabolic organ whose cellular composition is determined by a dynamic process of selection and competition. To identify microbial genes required for establishment of human symbionts in the gut, we developed an approach (insertion sequencing, or INSeq) based on a mutagenic transposon that allows capture of adjacent chromosomal DNA to define its genomic location. We used massively parallel sequencing to monitor the relative abundance of tens of thousands of transposon ...[more]