Abstract
Lactobacillus reuteri is both a gut symbiont and a stable member of sourdough microbiota. This study employed multilocus sequence analysis and an analysis of host-specific physiological and genetic traits to assign five sourdough isolates to rodent- or human-specific lineages. Comparative genome hybridization revealed that the model sourdough isolate LTH2584 had a genome content very similar to that of the model rodent isolate 100-23. These results demonstrate that sourdough isolates of L. reuteri are of intestinal origin.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 6777-6780 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Applied and Environmental Microbiology |
| Volume | 78 |
| Issue number | 18 |
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| Publication status | Published - Sep 2012 |
| Externally published | Yes |