Bacteria Are Smartphones and Mobile Genes Are Apps

J Peter W Young

doi:10.1016/j.tim.2016.09.002

Bacteria Are Smartphones and Mobile Genes Are Apps

J Peter W Young

Biology

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Abstract

Bacterial core and accessory genome components are analogous to the operating system and applications of smartphones. The core genome provides stable taxonomy and species lists, but phenotypes reflect the mobile pool of accessory genes. This suggests changes to the ways we define bacterial species and describe bacterial communities.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	931-932
Number of pages	2
Journal	Trends in microbiology
Volume	24
Issue number	12
Early online date	24 Sep 2016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.2016.09.002
Publication status	Published - Dec 2016

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