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Hidden diversity in key environmental cleanup microbes found by systems biology assessment

IMAGE: A team of researchers, including Georgia Techs Kostas Konstantinidis, analyzed the gene sequences of 10 Shewanella strains and found that nearly half of the almost 10,000 protein-coding genes were strain-specific.... Full Article at EurekAlert

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