Niche-Specific Genome Evolution in Gastrointestinal Probiotics

DOI: 10.26717/BJSTR.2017.01.000279

Received: August 09, 2017;   Published: August 16, 2017

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Abstract

Probiotics are defined as health-promoting microbes which confer health benefits upon the host. Lactobacillus is regarded as the most diverse probiotic genus which harbors over 200 species among which are many strains with proved functional probiotic characteristics [1-3]. The economic significance of probiotics have courage scientists to study the biochemistry, genomics, phylogeny and physiology of lactobacilli, exhaustively.

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