UC Berkeley UC Berkeley Previously Published Works Title Novel Microbial Diversity and Functional Potential in the Marine Mammal Oral Microbiome. Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1w91s3vq Journal Current biology : CB, 27(24) ISSN 0960-9822 Authors Dudek, Natasha K Sun, Christine L Burstein, David et al. Publication Date 2017-12-01 DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2017.10.040 Peer reviewed eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California Novel Microbial Diversity and Functional Potential in the Marine Mammal Oral Microbiome Natasha K. Dudek,1 Christine L. Sun,2,3 David Burstein,4 Rose S. Kantor,5 Daniela S. Aliaga Goltsman,2,3 Elisabeth M. Bik,2,8 Brian C. Thomas,4 Jillian F. Banfield,4,6 and David A. Relman2,3,7,9, * 1Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA 2Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA 3Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA 4Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA 5Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA 6Earth and Environmental Science, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA 7Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA 8Present address: uBiome, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA 9Lead Contact *Correspondence:
[email protected] Summary The vast majority of bacterial diversity lies within phylum-level lineages called “candidate phyla,” which lack isolated representatives and are poorly understood. These bacteria are surprisingly abundant in the oral cavity of marine mammals.