PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Marcos Parras-Moltó
AU  - Daniel Aguirre de Cárcer
TI  - Detection of phylogenetic core groups in diverse microbial ecosystems
AID  - 10.1101/2020.01.07.896985
DP  - 2020 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 2020.01.07.896985
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2020/01/08/2020.01.07.896985.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2020/01/08/2020.01.07.896985.full
AB  - The detection and subsequent analysis of phylogenetic core groups (PCGs) in a microbial ecosystem has been recently proposed as a potentially important analytical framework with which to increase our understanding of its structure and function. However, it was still unclear whether PCGs represented an infrequent phenomenon in nature. Here we provide evidence of PCGs in a large and diverse array of environments, which seems to indicate that their existence is indeed a predominant feature of microbial ecosystems. Moreover, we offer dedicated scripts to examine the presence and characteristics of PCGs in other microbial community datasets.