New tool reveals role of ancestry in soil communities of bacteria

Monday, April 18, 2016 - 10:30 in Biology & Nature

Researchers have weighed in on the hotly debated relationship between lineage and behavior in microorganisms by using a new tool -- quantitative stable isotope probing -- producing results that have implications for how much may be lost when strains of bacteria are lost from a soil community.

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