Shedding Light on Microbial “Dark Matter”: Insights Into Novel Cloacimonadota and Omnitrophota From an Antarctic Lake

• Published in: Frontiers in Microbiology
• Main Authors: Williams, Timothy J., Allen, Michelle A., Berengut, Jonathan F., Cavicchioli, Ricardo
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
• Subjects: Microbiology; Ace Lake; Antarctic; Vestfold; Vestfold Hills; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8542988/; https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.741077

The potential metabolism and ecological roles of many microbial taxa remain unknown because insufficient genomic data are available to assess their functional potential. Two such microbial “dark matter” taxa are the Candidatus bacterial phyla Cloacimonadota and Omnitrophota, both of which have been...