Hidden in plain sight—highly abundant and diverse planktonic freshwater Chloroflexi

Hidden in plain sight—highly abundant and diverse planktonic freshwater Chloroflexi

Abstract Background Representatives of the phylum Chloroflexi, though reportedly highly abundant in the extensive deep water habitats of both marine (SAR202 up to 30% of total prokaryotes) and freshwater (CL500-11 up to 26% of total prokaryotes), remain uncultivated and uncharacterized. There are fe...

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Main Authors: Maliheh Mehrshad, Michaela M Salcher, Yusuke Okazaki, Shin-ichi Nakano, Karel Šimek, Adrian-Stefan Andrei, Rohit Ghai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-10-01
Series:Microbiome
Subjects:
Chloroflexi
Freshwater ecology
Metagenomics
CARD-FISH
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40168-018-0563-8

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