Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

The Mouse Gut Microbial Biobank expands the coverage of cultured bacteria

  • Chang Liu,
  • Nan Zhou,
  • Meng-Xuan Du,
  • Yu-Tong Sun,
  • Kai Wang,
  • Yu-Jing Wang,
  • Dan-Hua Li,
  • Hai-Ying Yu,
  • Yuqin Song,
  • Bing-Bing Bai,
  • Yuhua Xin,
  • Linhuan Wu,
  • Cheng-Ying Jiang,
  • Jie Feng,
  • Hua Xiang,
  • Yuguang Zhou,
  • Juncai Ma,
  • Jun Wang,
  • Hong-Wei Liu,
  • Shuang-Jiang Liu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13836-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Here, the authors established and characterized the mouse gut microbial biobank (mGMB), which includes 244 strains and 126 species that enlarges previous mouse intestinal bacterial collections and represents a resource for studies using mouse models to investigate microbiome-associated health and disease.