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SUBMITTER: Joseph SJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC309996 | biostudies-literature | 2003 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Joseph Shayne J SJ Hugenholtz Philip P Sangwan Parveen P Osborne Catherine A CA Janssen Peter H PH
Applied and environmental microbiology 20031201 12
Most soil bacteria belong to family-level phylogenetic groups with few or no known cultivated representatives. We cultured a collection of 350 isolates from soil by using simple solid media in petri dishes. These isolates were assigned to 60 family-level groupings in nine bacterial phyla on the basis of a comparative analysis of their 16S rRNA genes. Ninety-three (27%) of the isolates belonged to 20 as-yet-unnamed family-level groupings, many from poorly studied bacterial classes and phyla. They ...[more]