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SUBMITTER: Lee JE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3105695 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lee Jung Eun JE Lee Sunghee S Sung Joohon J Ko GwangPyo G
The ISME journal 20100805 2
Microbial compositions of human and animal feces from South Korea were analyzed and characterized. In total, 38 fecal samples (14 healthy adult humans, 6 chickens, 6 cows, 6 pigs and 6 geese) were analyzed by 454 pyrosequencing of the V2 region of the 16S rRNA gene. Four major phyla, Actinobacteria, Proteobacteria, Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes, were identified in the samples. Principal coordinate analysis suggested that microbiota from the same host species generally clustered, with the exceptio ...[more]