Nature Communications (Jun 2022)

Short- and long-read metagenomics expand individualized structural variations in gut microbiomes

  • Liang Chen,
  • Na Zhao,
  • Jiabao Cao,
  • Xiaolin Liu,
  • Jiayue Xu,
  • Yue Ma,
  • Ying Yu,
  • Xuan Zhang,
  • Wenhui Zhang,
  • Xiangyu Guan,
  • Xiaotong Yu,
  • Zhipeng Liu,
  • Yanqun Fan,
  • Yang Wang,
  • Fan Liang,
  • Depeng Wang,
  • Linhua Zhao,
  • Moshi Song,
  • Jun Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30857-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Here, Wang and colleagues combine short and long sequencing reads to characterize structural variations, prophage and CRISPR spacer elements in human gut microbiomes, and reveal functional differences at a finer level of bacterial strains.