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Novelty and uniqueness patterns of rare members of the soil biosphere.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Sept 2008
Elshahed Mostafa S, Youssef Noha H, Spain Anne M, Sheik Cody, Najar Fares Z, Sukharnikov Leonid O, Roe Bruce A, Davis James P, Schloss Patrick D, Bailey Vanessa L, Krumholz Lee R
Abstract excerpt
Soil bacterial communities typically exhibit a distribution pattern in which most bacterial species are present in low abundance. Due to the relatively small size of most culture-independent sequencing surveys, a detailed phylogenetic analysis of rare members of the community is lacking. To gain access to the rarely sampled soil biosphere, we analyzed a data set of 13,001 near-full-length 16S rRNA gene clones...
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