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Rare Bacterial Taxa May Play Outsize Role in Soil Microbiome Structure, Study Suggests

Nov 20, 2017
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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – The rarest bacterial representatives in soil microbiomes may provide pronounced clues about the structure and soil specificity of those microbial communities, according to members of an international team led by investigators at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology and the University of Manchester.

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