Microbial dark matter filling the niche in hypersaline microbial mats

Abstract Background Shark Bay, Australia, harbours one of the most extensive and diverse systems of living microbial mats that are proposed to be analogs of some of the earliest ecosystems on Earth. These ecosystems have been shown to possess a substantial abundance of uncultivable microorganisms. T...

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Main Authors: Hon Lun Wong, Fraser I. MacLeod, Richard Allen White, Pieter T. Visscher, Brendan P. Burns
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-09-01
Series:Microbiome
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40168-020-00910-0