Marine biofilms constitute a bank of hidden microbial diversity and functional potential
oleh: Weipeng Zhang, Wei Ding, Yong-Xin Li, Chunkit Tam, Salim Bougouffa, Ruojun Wang, Bite Pei, Hoyin Chiang, Pokman Leung, Yanhong Lu, Jin Sun, He Fu, Vladimir B Bajic, Hongbin Liu, Nicole S. Webster, Pei-Yuan Qian
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| Diterbitkan: | Nature Portfolio 2019-01-01 |
Deskripsi
Previous surveys of global ocean microbial diversity have focused on planktonic microbes. Here, Zhang et al. use metagenomics to study biofilm-forming marine microbes, increasing the known microbial diversity in the oceans by more than 20% and revealing new biosynthetic gene clusters and CRISPR-Cas systems.