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SUBMITTER: Kalia VC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4729739 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kalia Vipin Chandra VC Kumar Ravi R Kumar Prasun P Koul Shikha S
Indian journal of microbiology 20151120 1
The use of rrs (16S rRNA) gene is widely regarded as the "gold standard" for identifying bacteria and determining their phylogenetic relationships. Nevertheless, multiple copies of this gene in a genome is likely to give an overestimation of the bacterial diversity. In each of the 50 Streptococcus genomes (16 species, 50 strains), 4-7 copies of rrs are present. The nucleotide sequences of these rrs genes show high similarity within and among genomes, which did not allow unambiguous identificatio ...[more]