Shedding light on the composition of extreme microbial dark matter: alternative approaches for culturing extremophiles

More than 20,000 species of prokaryotes (less than 1% of the estimated number of Earth’s microbial species) have been described thus far. However, the vast majority of microbes that inhabit extreme environments remain uncultured and this group is termed “microbial dark matter.” Little is known regar...

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Published in:	Frontiers in Microbiology
Main Authors:	Júnia Schultz, Flúvio Modolon, Raquel Silva Peixoto, Alexandre Soares Rosado
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-06-01
Subjects:	extremophiles extreme environments microbial cultivation applied microbiology culturomics
Online Access:	https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1167718/full