Babela massiliensis a representative of a widespread bacterial phylum with unusual adaptations to parasitism in amoebae

摘要

BackgroundOnly a small fraction of bacteria and archaea that are identifiable by metagenomics can be grown on standard media. Recent efforts on deep metagenomics sequencing, single-cell genomics and the use of specialized culture conditions (culturomics) increasingly yield novel microbes some of which represent previously uncharacterized phyla and possess unusual biological traits.