Sentences with phrase «as microbial dark matter»

«Extreme environments generally contain a lot of unknown microorganisms, which we refer to as microbial dark matter,» says Jimmy Saw, researcher at Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, and co-lead author of the paper.

Not exact matches

They're known as «microbial dark matter,» a reference to astronomers» description of the vast invisible matter in space that makes up most of the mass in the cosmos.

While researchers are harnessing multiple approaches to identify these microbes, referred to as «microbial dark matter,» and determine what they're doing, most techniques don't allow them to do both at once.