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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1990-4-26
pubmed:abstractText
The phenotypic diversity of about 200 bacterial strains isolated from soil was compared with the genotypic diversity of the same population. The strains were phenotypically characterized by the API 20B test system. The results of these tests were subjected to cluster analysis, which revealed 41 biotypes at 80% similarity. The five dominating biotypes contained 43% of the strains. The phenotypic diversity as determined by the Shannon index, equitability, rarefaction, and cumulative differences was high, but indicated some dominant biotypes. The genetic diversity was measured by reassociation of mixtures of denatured DNA isolated from the bacterial strains (C0t plots). The observed genetic diversity was high. Reassociation of DNA from all bacterial strains together revealed that the population contained heterologous DNA equivalent to 20 totally different bacterial genomes (i.e., genomes that have no homology). This study showed that reassociation of DNA isolated from a collection of bacteria gave a good estimate of the diversity of the collection and that there was good agreement with different phenotypic diversity measures. The Shannon index in particular has features in common with the genetic diversity measure presented here.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0099-2240
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
56
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
776-81
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1990
pubmed:articleTitle
Comparison of phenotypic diversity and DNA heterogeneity in a population of soil bacteria.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Microbiology and Plant Physiology, University of Bergen, Norway.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study