A consensus protocol for the recovery of mercury methylation genes from metagenomes
E. Capo, B. D. Peterson, M. Kim, D. S. Jones, S. G. Acinas, M. Amyot, S. Bertilsson, E. Bjorn, M. Buck, C. Cosio, D. Elias, C. Gilmour, M. Goni, B. Gu, H. Lin, , C. M. Gionfriddo
The paper presents a standardized protocol and bioinformatic pipeline for detecting and quantifying mercury methylation genes (hgcAB) in metagenomes, showing comparable efficiency between single and co-assembly approaches.
bioRxiv · Mar 14, 2022Microbiology