Published in:
Nature Reviews Genetics 24(8) , 490-490 ( 2023)
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DOI:
10.1038/s41576-023-00619-4
Abstract:
Tanja Woyke highlights a 2014 study by Kashtan et al., who applied single-cell genomics to populations of the marine cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus, revealing hundreds of subpopulations with distinct genomic backbones of this wild uncultured microorganism.