Genome shuffling enables quantitative trait locus mapping in Bacillus subtilis
Delyana P. Vasileva, Hari Bahadur Chhetri, Leah H. Hochanadel, Jared Streich, John H. Lagergren, Matthew J. Lane, Apurv Mhatre, Oumar Sacko, Marco N. Allemann, Edanur Öksüz, Dana L. Carper, Benjamin Rubino, Sadie Chitwood, Zachary D. Schmitz, Dawn M. Klingeman, , Joshua K. Michener
This study uses genome shuffling in Bacillus subtilis to map quantitative trait loci for complex phenotypes, identifying high-confidence QTLs of moderate size.
Nature Communications · Aug 5, 2026Peer-reviewedMicrobiology