Access through your institution Buy or subscribe Although chromosome organization in microorganisms has been investigated in single species, similar analyses of whole genomes in complex

environmental microbial communities have been limited. Marbouty _et al_. developed a metagenomic chromosome conformation capture approach (termed meta3C) for the characterization of the

average organization of individual genomes in mixed microbial communities. This approach, which is based on measuring the frequency with which two chromosomal segments come in contact, was

tested on an artificial mixture of bacterial species and an environmental sample of unknown composition; the authors identified genomic regions that could be matched to a specific species

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et al. Metagenomic chromosome conformation capture (meta3C) unveils the diversity of chromosome organization in microorganisms. _eLife_ 3, e03318 (2014) Article  Google Scholar  Download

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