Dear all,
Our MICROBIAN colleagues at the University of Ghent, Sam Lambrechts, Anne Willems and Guillaume Tahon have just published a paper 'Uncovering the Uncultivated Majority in Antarctic Soils: Toward a Synergistic Approach' in Frontiers in Microbiology!
Link to Lambrechts et al. 2019
Indeed, the majority of bacteria is still uncultivated and known only from surveys based on sequence data, either a taxonomic molecular marker like the 16S rRNA gene or a metagenomic analysis where all the present genes are targeted (without preselection by PCR).
The paper is showing that cultivated strains are still crucial to study and understand microbial diversity and gives useful suggestions.
Cheers
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