High or low correlation between co-occuring gene clusters and 16S rRNA gene phylogeny

K Rudi, M Sekelja - FEMS microbiology letters, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Ribosomal RNA (rRNA) genes are universal for all living organisms. Yet, the
correspondence between genome composition and rRNA phylogeny remains poorly known …

Diversity of 16S rRNA genes within individual prokaryotic genomes

AY Pei, WE Oberdorf, CW Nossa… - Applied and …, 2010 - Am Soc Microbiol
Analysis of intragenomic variation of 16S rRNA genes is a unique approach to examining
the concept of ribosomal constraints on rRNA genes; the degree of variation is an important …

The variability of the 16S rRNA gene in bacterial genomes and its consequences for bacterial community analyses

T Větrovský, P Baldrian - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
16S ribosomal RNA currently represents the most important target of study in bacterial
ecology. Its use for the description of bacterial diversity is, however, limited by the presence …

[HTML][HTML] Benchmarking of 16S rRNA gene databases using known strain sequences

K Dixit, D Davray, D Chaudhari, P Kadam… - …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract 16S rRNA gene analysis is the most convenient and robust method for microbiome
studies. Inaccurate taxonomic assignment of bacterial strains could have deleterious effects …

Marker genes that are less conserved in their sequences are useful for predicting genome-wide similarity levels between closely related prokaryotic strains

Y Lan, G Rosen, R Hershberg - Microbiome, 2016 - Springer
Background The 16s rRNA gene is so far the most widely used marker for taxonomical
classification and separation of prokaryotes. Since it is universally conserved among …

Phylogenies of the 16S rRNA gene and its hypervariable regions lack concordance with core genome phylogenies

HB Hassler, B Probert, C Moore, E Lawson… - Microbiome, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Background The 16S rRNA gene is used extensively in bacterial phylogenetics, in
species delineation, and now widely in microbiome studies. However, the gene suffers from …

Alignment and clustering of phylogenetic markers-implications for microbial diversity studies

JR White, S Navlakha, N Nagarajan, MR Ghodsi… - BMC …, 2010 - Springer
Background Molecular studies of microbial diversity have provided many insights into the
bacterial communities inhabiting the human body and the environment. A common first step …

Concatenated 16S rRNA sequence analysis improves bacterial taxonomy

B Paul - F1000Research, 2023 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Microscopic, biochemical, molecular, and computer-based approaches are
extensively used to identify and classify bacterial populations. Advances in DNA sequencing …

Ribosomal MLST nucleotide identity (rMLST-NI), a rapid bacterial species identification method: application to Klebsiella and Raoultella genomic species validation

JE Bray, A Correia, M Varga, KA Jolley… - Microbial …, 2022 - microbiologyresearch.org
Bacterial genomics is making an increasing contribution to the fields of medicine and public
health microbiology. Consequently, accurate species identification of bacterial genomes is …

Ribosomal multilocus sequence typing: universal characterization of bacteria from domain to strain

KA Jolley, CM Bliss, JS Bennett, HB Bratcher… - …, 2012 - microbiologyresearch.org
No single genealogical reconstruction or typing method currently encompasses all levels of
bacterial diversity, from domain to strain. We propose ribosomal multilocus sequence typing …