Many species of Archaea, Bacteria and eukaryotes are polyploid in natural populations. The mixture of species with unknown but widely varying ploidy levels compromises marker-gene-based analyses of community structures, population dynamics and microbiomes.
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The work on ploidy in prokaryotes in my group was funded by the German Research Council (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) through grants SO264/16 and SO264/24. I thank C. Schleper (University of Vienna, Austria) for critically reading the manuscript.
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Soppa, J. Polyploidy and community structure. Nat Microbiol 2, 16261 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.261
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