Relating genomic characteristics to environmental preferences and ubiquity in different microbial taxa

Abstract Background Despite the important role that microorganisms play in environmental processes, the low percentage of cultured microbes (5%) has limited, until now, our knowledge of their ecological strategies. However, the development of high-throughput sequencing has generated a huge amount of...

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Main Authors: Marta Cobo-Simón, Javier Tamames
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-06-01
Series:BMC Genomics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12864-017-3888-y