Teasing out the microbiome of the Kansas prairie

Posted by on July 29, 2016 3:09 pm
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Scientists have untangled a soil metagenome — all the genetic material recovered from a sample of soil — more fully than ever before, reconstructing portions of the genomes of 129 species of microbes. While it’s only a tiny proportion of the estimated 100,000 species in the sample, it’s a leap forward for scientists who have had only a fraction of that success to date.

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