Yale undergrads' Amazon trip yields a treasure trove of diversity

Sunday, August 24, 2008 - 13:56 in Biology & Nature

A group of Yale undergraduates have discovered dozens of potentially beneficial bioactive microorganisms within plants they collected in the Amazon rain forest, including several so genetically distinct that they may be the first members of new taxonomical genera.

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