date:May 22, 2012
The new molecular tool detects the nucleic acid of thousands of organisms in an entire community, unlike traditional sequencing that characterizes genes in a single organism.
For the study, researchers from Agricultural Research Service (ARS) - the chief intramural scientific research agency of USDA, used metagenomics to analyze nucleic acid from poultry intestine samples gathered from US commercial poultry flocks infected with enteric diseases.
The researchers were able to identify a new vi