Nature Communications (Jul 2016)
Genomics-informed isolation and characterization of a symbiotic Nanoarchaeota system from a terrestrial geothermal environment
Abstract
Many microbial lineages have not yet been cultured, which hampers our understanding of their physiology. Here, Wurch et al. use single-cell genomics to infer cultivation conditions for the isolation of a tiny ectosymbiotic nanoarchaeon and its crenarchaeota host from a geothermal spring.