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An improved Greengenes taxonomy with explicit ranks for ecological and evolutionary analyses of bacteria and archaea

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Search and clustering orders of magnitude faster than BLAST

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Improving the culturability of freshwater bacteria using FW70, a low-nutrient solid medium amended with sodium pyruvate

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Effect of gelling agent on colony formation in solid cultivation of microbial community in lake sediment

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Short Peptide Induces an "Uncultivable" Microorganism To Grow In Vitro

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SAR11 marine bacteria require exogenous reduced sulphur for growth

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Cultivating previously uncultured soil bacteria using a soil substrate membrane system

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