Long-Term Transcriptional Activity at Zero Growth of a Cosmopolitan Rare Biosphere Member
The microbial rare biosphere represents the largest pool of biodiversity on Earth and constitutes, in sum of all its members, a considerable part of a habitat’s biomass. Dormancy or starvation is typically used to explain the persistence of low-abundance microorganisms in the environment. We show th...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2019-02-01
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Series: | mBio |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.02189-18 |