{"672126":{"#nid":"672126","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Towards estimating the number of strains that make up a natural bacterial population","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhat a strain is and how many strains make up a natural bacterial population remain elusive concepts despite their apparent importance for assessing the role of intra-population diversity in disease emergence or response to environmental perturbations. A research team\u0026nbsp;sequenced 138 randomly selected\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ESalinibacter ruber\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;isolates from two solar salterns and assessed these genomes against companion short-read metagenomes from the same samples. In its paper published in \u003Cem\u003ENature Communications\u003C\/em\u003E, the team says its methodology and ANI thresholds outlined should represent a useful guide for future microdiversity surveys of additional microbial species. The researcher include Ph.D. Scholar \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/roth-conrad\u0022\u003ERoth E. Conrad\u003C\/a\u003E and Professor\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ocean.gatech.edu\/people\/dr-kostas-konstantinidis\u0022\u003E Kostas Konstantinidis\u003C\/a\u003E, both in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E. Konstantinidis is also the Richard C. Tucker Professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ce.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Civil and Environmental Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhat a strain is and how many strains make up a natural bacterial population remain elusive concepts despite their apparent importance for assessing the role of intra-population diversity in disease emergence or response to environmental perturbations. A research team\u0026nbsp;sequenced 138 randomly selected\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ESalinibacter ruber\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;isolates from two solar salterns and assessed these genomes against companion short-read metagenomes from the same samples. In its paper published in \u003Cem\u003ENature Communications\u003C\/em\u003E, the team says its methodology and ANI thresholds outlined should represent a useful guide for future microdiversity surveys of additional microbial species. The researcher include Ph.D. Scholar \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/roth-conrad\u0022\u003ERoth E. Conrad\u003C\/a\u003E and Professor\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ocean.gatech.edu\/people\/dr-kostas-konstantinidis\u0022\u003E Kostas Konstantinidis\u003C\/a\u003E, both in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E. Konstantinidis is also the Richard C. Tucker Professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ce.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Civil and Environmental Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2024-01-16 17:49:27","changed_gmt":"2024-01-16 17:49:27","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Nature Communications ","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-023-44622-z","dateline":{"date":"2024-01-16T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2024-01-16T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"167864","name":"School of Civil and Environmental Engineering"},{"id":"193242","name":"Roth E. Conrad"},{"id":"12758","name":"Kostas Konstantinidis"},{"id":"185550","name":"bacteria strains"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}