Highly clade-specific biosynthesis of rhamnose: present in all plants and in only 42% of prokaryotes.Only Pseudomonas uses both D- and L-rhamnose
Toshi Mishra, Petety V. Balaji
The paper investigates the prevalence of rhamnose biosynthesis pathways across genomes and metagenomes, finding clade-specific distribution and strain-level variation in prokaryotes.
bioRxiv · Nov 25, 2019 · PreprintGenomics