Small and mighty: adaptation of superphylum Patescibacteria to groundwater environment drives their genome simplicity

Background: The newly defined superphylum Patescibacteria such as Parcubacteria (OD1) and Microgenomates (OP11) has been found to be prevalent in groundwater, sediment, lake, and other aquifer environments. Recently increasing attention has been paid to this diverse superphylum including > 20 can...

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Main Authors: Tian, Renmao, Ning, Daliang, He, Zhili, Zhang, Ping, Spencer, Sarah J., Gao, Shuhong, Shi, Weiling, Wu, Linwei, Zhang, Ya, Yang, Yunfeng, Adams, Benjamin G., Rocha, Andrea M., Detienne, Brittny L., Lowe, Kenneth A., Joyner, Dominique C., Klingeman, Dawn M., Arkin, Adam P., Fields, Matthew W., Hazen, Terry C., Stahl, David A., Alm, Eric J, Zhou, Jizhong
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/128881