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SUBMITTER: Castelle CJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3903129 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Castelle Cindy J CJ Hug Laura A LA Wrighton Kelly C KC Thomas Brian C BC Williams Kenneth H KH Wu Dongying D Tringe Susannah G SG Singer Steven W SW Eisen Jonathan A JA Banfield Jillian F JF
Nature communications 20130101
Microorganisms in the subsurface represent a substantial but poorly understood component of the Earth's biosphere. Subsurface environments are complex and difficult to characterize; thus, their microbiota have remained as a 'dark matter' of the carbon and other biogeochemical cycles. Here we deeply sequence two sediment-hosted microbial communities from an aquifer adjacent to the Colorado River, CO, USA. No single organism represents more than ~1% of either community. Remarkably, many bacteria a ...[more]