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High proportions of bacteria and archaea across most biomes remain uncultured

A recent paper by Martiny argues that “high proportions” of bacteria in diverse Earth environments have been cultured. Here we reanalyze a portion of the data in that paper, and argue that the conclusion is based on several technical errors, most notably a calculation of sequence similarity that doe...

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Autores principales: Steen, Andrew D., Crits-Christoph, Alexander, Carini, Paul, DeAngelis, Kristen M., Fierer, Noah, Lloyd, Karen G., Cameron Thrash, J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6863901/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31388130
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41396-019-0484-y