Phenogenomic Characterization of a Newly Domesticated and Novel Species from the Genus Verrucosispora.

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The concept of bacterial dark matter stems from our inability to culture most microbes and represents a fundamental gap in our knowledge of microbial diversity. Here, we present the domestication of such an organism: a previously uncultured, novel species from the rare Actinomycetes genus Verrucosispora. Although initial recovery took >4 months, isolation of phenotypically distinct, domesticated generations...

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