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SUBMITTER: Lugli GA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4178631 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lugli Gabriele Andrea GA Milani Christian C Turroni Francesca F Duranti Sabrina S Ferrario Chiara C Viappiani Alice A Mancabelli Leonardo L Mangifesta Marta M Taminiau Bernard B Delcenserie Véronique V van Sinderen Douwe D Ventura Marco M
Applied and environmental microbiology 20140808 20
The Bifidobacterium genus currently encompasses 48 recognized taxa, which have been isolated from different ecosystems. However, the current phylogeny of bifidobacteria is hampered by the relative paucity of genotypic data. Here, we reassessed the taxonomy of this bacterial genus using genome-based approaches, which demonstrated that the previous taxonomic view of bifidobacteria contained several inconsistencies. In particular, high levels of genetic relatedness were shown to exist between parti ...[more]