Sentences with phrase «of microbial dark matter»

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«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.

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 most Amazonian earth is notoriously nutrient poor, yellowish, sterile, and unscented, there are extensive patches of soil that are mysteriously dark, moist, fragrant, and filled with insects, microbial life, and organic matter.

«Any report of a new antibiotic is auspicious, but what most excites me is the tantalising prospect that this discovery is just the tip of the iceberg,» says Mark Woolhouse at the University of Edinburgh, adding that Lewis's team has found a way to look for antibiotics in the microbial «dark matter» that has so far been very difficult to study.

Learning more about this so - called «microbial dark matter» involves extracting microbial genomes from the amplified DNA of single cells and from metagenomes.

Jennah will work on the exploration of novel microbes that reside in the environment, so - called «microbial dark matter».

Disa will work on the genomic exploration of «microbial dark matter», focusing on new archaeal lineages and viruses, using both lab - and bioionformatics - based approaches.