Pan-Genome Portrait of Bacillus mycoides Provides Insights into the Species Ecology and Evolution.

ABSTRACT: Bacillus mycoides is poorly known despite its frequent occurrence in a wide variety of environments. To provide direct insight into its ecology and evolutionary history, a comparative investigation of the species pan-genome and the functional gene categorization of 35 isolates obtained from soil samples from northeastern Poland was performed. The pan-genome of these isolates is composed of 20,175 genes and is characterized by a strong predominance of adaptive genes (∼83%), a significant amount of plasmid genes (∼37%), and a great contribution of prophages and insertion sequences. The pan-genome structure and phylodynamic studies had suggested a wide genomic diversity among the isolates, but no correlation between lineages and the bacillus origin was found. Nevertheless, the two B. mycoides

SUBMITTER: Fiedoruk K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8552610 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature