期刊
GENOME BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
卷 10, 期 3, 页码 707-715出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evy031
关键词
metagenomics; eukaryogenesis; microbial evolution; tree of life; web of life; CPR bacteria
资金
- European Research Council [615274]
- European Research Council (ERC) [615274] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
Microbes are the oldest and most widespread, phylogenetically and metabolically diverse life forms on Earth. However, they have been discovered only 334 years ago, and their diversity started to become seriously investigated even later. For these reasons, microbial studies that unveil novel microbial lineages and processes affecting or involving microbes deeply (and repeatedly) transformknowledge in biology. Considering the quantitative prevalence of taxonomically and functionally unassigned sequences in environmental genomics data sets, and that of unculturedmicrobes on the planet, we propose that unraveling themicrobial dark matter should be identified as a central priority for biologists. Based on former empirical findings of microbial studies, we sketch a logic of discovery with the potential to further highlight the microbial unknowns.
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