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SUBMITTER: Royo-Llonch M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5525439 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Frontiers in microbiology 20170725
Marine Bacteroidetes constitute a very abundant bacterioplankton group in the oceans that plays a key role in recycling particulate organic matter and includes several photoheterotrophic members containing proteorhodopsin. Relatively few marine Bacteroidetes species have been described and, moreover, they correspond to cultured isolates, which in most cases do not represent the actual abundant or ecologically relevant microorganisms in the natural environment. In this study, we explored the micr ...[more]