Modules of co-occurrence in the cyanobacterial pan-genome reveal functional associations between groups of ortholog genes.

ABSTRACT: Cyanobacteria are a monophyletic phylogenetic group of global importance and have received considerable attention as potential host organisms for the renewable synthesis of chemical bulk products from atmospheric CO2. The cyanobacterial phylum exhibits enormous metabolic diversity with respect to morphology, lifestyle and habitat. As yet, however, research has mostly focused on few model strains and cyanobacterial diversity is insufficiently understood. In this respect, the increasing availability of fully sequenced bacterial genomes opens new and unprecedented opportunities to investigate the genetic inventory of organisms in the context of their pan-genome. Here, we seek understand cyanobacterial diversity using a comparative genome analysis of 77 fully sequenced and assembled cyanobacte

SUBMITTER: Beck C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5862535 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature