DAZZLING AVATARS REVEALED. “Being intractable to research, prokaryotic life became a kind of biological dark matter—life forms known to be present and abundant, but whose properties and behavior could not be assessed. The analogy to cosmological dark matter is obvious. Now, the emergence of metagenomic analytical methods has rendered visible this heretofore hidden half of the biosphere—at least as genomic avatars. The results are dazzling.”
https://standardsingenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40793-016-0180-8
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022