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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Main Authors: Bela Hausmann, Claus Pelikan, Thomas Rattei, Alexander Loy, Michael Pester
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2019-02-01
Series:mBio
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.02189-18