New Tools to Isolate and Characterize New Species for Microbiomes
A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2017)
Special Issue Editor
Interests: human microbiota; human-associated bacteria; taxonomy; genomics; intra-cellular bacteria; zoonoses
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Dear Colleagues,
Over the past few years, a renewed interest in bacterial cultures has emerged. Initiatives, such as microbial culturomics, which investigates microbial diversity by combining diversified culture conditions, MALDI-TOF MS testing and 16S rRNA sequencing, have been proposed. Using culturomics, Raoult et al. were able to isolate 968 different bacterial species in the human gut microbiota. Of these, 159 were new species, which increases by 52% the repertoire of the currently-known human gut bacterial species. However, this rapid increase in new species has resulted in a need for new taxonomic tools for species description. Genome sequences, as well as MALDI-TOF MS spectra, appear to be well suited to be combined in a polyphasic taxonomic approach with other phenotypic criteria.
In the present Special Issue, we intend to explore the outcomes of new tools and strategies to isolate and characterize new members of the human microbiota.
Prof. Fournier Pierre-edouard
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- New bacteria
- Human microbiota
- Culture
- Culturomics
- Genomics
- MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry
- Taxonomy
