Article
Microbial Dark Matter Investigations: How Microbial Studies Transform Biological Knowledge and Empirically Sketch a Logic of Scientific Discovery.
Genome biology and evolution - 1 Mar 2018
Bernard Guillaume, Pathmanathan Jananan S, Lannes Romain, Lopez Philippe, Bapteste Eric
Abstract excerpt
Microbes are the oldest and most widespread, phylogenetically and metabolically diverse life forms on Earth. However, they have been discovered only 334 years ago, and their diversity started to become seriously investigated even later. For these reasons, microbial studies that unveil novel microbial lineages and processes affecting or involving microbes deeply (and repeatedly) transform knowledge in biology....
Topics
- Bacteria
- Genetic Variation
- Metagenomics
- Phylogeny