Finding Needles in Haystacks and Inferring Their Function: Challenges and Successes in Beneficial Symbiosis Research

ABSTRACT Symbioses between hosts and beneficial microbes are key drivers of biological innovation and diversity. While a range of systems have emerged that provide foundational insights into how symbioses function and evolve, we still have a limited understanding of the vast diversity of organisms t...

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Main Authors: Gordon M. Bennett, Elizabeth Heath-Heckman, E. Maggie Sogin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2021-04-01
Series:mSystems
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSystems.00243-21