The Bifidobacterium dentium Bd1 genome sequence reflects its genetic adaptation to the human oral cavity.

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Published in PLoS Genet on December 24, 2009

Authors

Marco Ventura1, Francesca Turroni, Aldert Zomer, Elena Foroni, Vanessa Giubellini, Francesca Bottacini, Carlos Canchaya, Marcus J Claesson, Fei He, Maria Mantzourani, Laura Mulas, Alberto Ferrarini, Beile Gao, Massimo Delledonne, Bernard Henrissat, Pedro Coutinho, Marco Oggioni, Radhey S Gupta, Ziding Zhang, David Beighton, Gerald F Fitzgerald, Paul W O'Toole, Douwe van Sinderen

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1: Laboratory of Probiogenomics, Department of Genetics, Biology of Microorganisms, Anthropology, and Evolution, University of Parma, Parma, Italy. marco.ventura@unipr.it

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