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Tomeu Viver1,2, Roth E Conrad3, Luis M Rodriguez-R4

  • 1Marine Microbiology Group, Department of Animal and Microbial Biodiversity, Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEDEA, CSIC-UIB), Esporles, Spain. bviver@mpi-bremen.de.

Nature communications
|January 16, 2024
PubMed
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定义细菌菌株和了解微生物多样性至关重要. 这项研究使用平均核酸标识 (ANI) 来定义Salinibacter ruber中的基因组变种和菌株,揭示了自然种群中广泛的,很少见的微生物多样性.

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