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The economical lifestyle of CPR bacteria in groundwater allows little preference for environmental drivers.

Narendrakumar M ChaudhariWill A OverholtPerla Abigail Figueroa-GonzalezMartin TaubertTill L V BornemannAlexander J ProbstMartin HölzerManja MarzKirsten Küsel
Published in: Environmental microbiome (2021)
Other than genes to cope with oxidative stress, we found little genomic evidence for niche adaptation of Patescibacteria to oxic or anoxic groundwaters. Given that we could detect specific host preference only for a few MAGs, we speculate that the majority of Patescibacteria is able to attach multiple hosts just long enough to loot or exchange supplies.
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