Phylogenetically Novel Uncultured Microbial Cells Dominate Earth Microbiomes
ABSTRACT To describe a microbe’s physiology, including its metabolism, environmental roles, and growth characteristics, it must be grown in a laboratory culture. Unfortunately, many phylogenetically novel groups have never been cultured, so their physiologies have only been inferred from genomics an...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2018-10-01
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| Series: | mSystems |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSystems.00055-18 |