Long-Term Transcriptional Activity at Zero Growth of a Cosmopolitan Rare Biosphere Member

ABSTRACT Microbial diversity in the environment is mainly concealed within the rare biosphere (all species with <0.1% relative abundance). While dormancy explains a low-abundance state very well, the mechanisms leading to rare but active microorganisms remain elusive. We used environmental system...

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Main Authors: Bela Hausmann, Claus Pelikan, Thomas Rattei, Alexander Loy, Michael Pester
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2019-02-01
Series:mBio
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.02189-18