Nature Communications (Feb 2022)

Biosynthetic gene cluster profiling predicts the positive association between antagonism and phylogeny in Bacillus

  • Liming Xia,
  • Youzhi Miao,
  • A’li Cao,
  • Yan Liu,
  • Zihao Liu,
  • Xinli Sun,
  • Yansheng Xue,
  • Zhihui Xu,
  • Weibing Xun,
  • Qirong Shen,
  • Nan Zhang,
  • Ruifu Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28668-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Interference competition exemplified by antagonism remains controversial. Using comparative genomic analysis and antagonistic assessments, this study shows that the distribution profile of biosynthetic gene clusters within Bacillus genomes is consistent with their phylogenetic relationship and that congeneric antagonism among Bacillus strains is positively correlated with phylogenetic distance.