Symbiosis between Candidatus Patescibacteria and Archaea Discovered in Wastewater-Treating Bioreactors

• DOI: 10.1128/mbio.01711-22
• Publication Date: 2022-08-31T12:00:36Z
• Authors: Kyohei Kuroda; Kyosuke Yamamoto; Ryosuke Nakai; Yuga Hirakata; Kengo Kubota; Masaru K. Nobu; Takashi Narihiro
• Keywords: Candidatus

One highly diverse phylogenetic group of Bacteria, Ca . Patescibacteria, remains poorly understood, but, from the few cultured representatives and metagenomic investigations, they are thought to live symbiotically or parasitically with other bacteria even eukarya.