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… on rich media by culturing them. DAN UDWARY: OK, what’s the taxonomic distribution? Is it significantly different than … really– we are now doing genome mining projects where we’re targeting what we think are privileged classes of molecular …
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… of a petri dish. And there are lots of these little white spots around, and those are Streptococcus bacteria – a kind … plate. And what do you notice about the Streptococcus spots around that? ALISON: Oh, they’re so much smaller. …
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… that the assembly line is working. And so just our kind of blind way of pulling a piece out that we recognize and …
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… mosaic theory of coevolution. So it looks like there’s hot spots of really potent antibiotics. There’s cold spots where the pathogens are taking over and everything in … okay, it’s going to be a mosaic, you’re going to have hot spots and cold spots of the thing that you’re measuring. And …
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… promising. We found that there were new genera, these basic taxonomic group called the genus. We found there were new … we decided, what are these? And we did the ribosomal taxonomic approach, looking at that, which allows you to … So we looked at them carefully. By looking at where their taxonomic positions were, we saw that many were new genera, …
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… 65, I can say more than 60 different so-called families. So taxonomically speaking, they belong to different species. …
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… antibiotic has to be a particular structure– because we are targeting a very – specificity – a particular target and … changed. Let’s get rid of it, because otherwise it will be targeting a target that is not beneficial anymore, and …
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… scientists to think about, because if you look at the 36 hotspots, or terrestrial biodiversity hotspots that we have on Earth, most of those occur in nations … review of plants with antibacterial activities: a taxonomic and phylogenetic perspective Ethnobotany and the …
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… within a metagenome they belong and to which – what are the taxonomic assignments of those, et cetera. Instead of just … field, many people had just been looking at like 16S taxonomic profiles of these communities looking at who is in …
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