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Relevance of phenotypic information for the taxonomy of not-yet-cultured microorganisms.
Systematic and applied microbiology - 1 Jan 2019
Overmann Jörg, Huang Sixing, Nübel Ulrich, Hahnke Richard L, Tindall Brian J
Abstract excerpt
To date, far less than 1% of the estimated global species of Bacteria and Archaea have been described and their names validly published. Aside from these quantitative limitations, our understanding of phenotypic and functional diversity of prokaryotes is also highly biased as not a single species has been described for 85 of the 118 phyla that are currently recognized. Due to recent advances in sequencing...
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