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Culturing the uncultured

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Bacterial species that have eluded cultivation are selectively brought into culture.

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Fig. 1: Overview of reverse genomics for the isolation and cultivation of bacteria.

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Lewis, W.H., Ettema, T.J.G. Culturing the uncultured. Nat Biotechnol 37, 1278–1279 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-019-0300-2

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