Characterizing the Uncultivated Microbial Minority: towards Understanding the Roles of the Rare Biosphere in Microbial Communities
ABSTRACT Microbial communities are frequently numerically dominated by just a few species. Often, the long “tail” of the rank-abundance plots of microbial communities constitutes the so-called “rare biosphere,” microorganisms that are highly diverse but are typically found in low abundance in these...
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| Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2021-08-01
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| Series: | mSystems |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSystems.00773-21 |