Mapping the protistan 'rare biosphere'
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چکیده
The use of cultivation-independent approaches to map microbial diversity, including recent work published in BMC Biology, has now shown that protists, like bacteria/archaea, are much more diverse than had been realized. Uncovering eukaryotic diversity may now be limited not by access to samples or cost but rather by the availability of full-length reference sequence data.
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دوره 8 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009