1. Microbial dark matter coming to light: challenges and opportunities.
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Jiao, Jian-Yu, Liu, Lan, Hua, Zheng-Shuang, Fang, Bao-Zhu, Zhou, En-Min, Salam, Nimaichand, Hedlund, Brian P, and Li, Wen-Jun
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DARK matter ,SCIENTIFIC communication ,GENOMICS ,GENES ,MICROORGANISMS - Abstract
Notably, single-amplified genomes (SAGs) and metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) obtained from single-cell genomic and metagenomic approaches, respectively, have become the most effective methods that enable organism-level genomic analysis of complex microbial ecosystems without the need for cultivation, which brings lighttoMDM. Hug et al. used more than 1000 MDM genomes, together with public genomic data,toinferthetreeoflifeanddescribed a hyper-diverse clade of MDM termed the Candidate Phyla Radiation (CPR), subdividing the domain Bacteria [4]. The study of MDM is still in its infancy and further exploration of MDM will continue to provide unanticipated and excitinganswersabouttheevolutionand roles of MDM in nature. This is so-called Microbial Dark Matter (MDM): the enormous diversity of yet-uncultivated microbes that microbiologists can only study by using cultivation-independent techniques. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2021
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