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Low Abundance Acidophilic Archea Revealed
Scientists from NAI’s University of California, Berkeley Team report in this week’s Science on their use of shotgun sequencing to uncover three novel archea present in all biofilms growing in pH 0.5 to 1.5 solutions within the Richmond Mine, California. Their results inform the problem of characterizing microbial communities and lineages which are difficult to cultivate.
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