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Urban Transit System Microbial Communities Differ by Surface Type and Interaction with Humans and the Environment

Public transit systems are ideal for studying the urban microbiome and interindividual community transfer. In this study, we used 16S amplicon and shotgun metagenomic sequencing to profile microbial communities on multiple transit surfaces across train lines and stations in the Boston metropolitan t...

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Autores principales: Hsu, Tiffany, Joice, Regina, Vallarino, Jose, Abu-Ali, Galeb, Hartmann, Erica M., Shafquat, Afrah, DuLong, Casey, Baranowski, Catherine, Gevers, Dirk, Green, Jessica L., Morgan, Xochitl C., Spengler, John D., Huttenhower, Curtis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Society for Microbiology 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5069760/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27822528
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00018-16