title: Mapping the protistan 'rare biosphere'.
abstract: The use of cultivation-independent approaches to map microbial diversity, including recent work published in BMC Biology, has now shown that protists, like bacteria/archaea, are much more diverse than had been realized. Uncovering eukaryotic diversity may now be limited not by access to samples or cost but rather by the availability of full-length reference sequence data.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA. scdawson@ucdavis.edu
authors.forename: Scott C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Dawson
authors.forename: Kari D
authors.initials: KD
authors.lastname: Hagen
mesh_terms: D001105:Archaea / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology; D001419:Bacteria / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics; D044822:Biodiversity; D005075:Biological Evolution; D016054:DNA, Protozoan / Q000032:analysis*; D004275:DNA, Ribosomal / Q000032:analysis*; D017753:Ecosystem; D056890:Eukaryota / Q000502:physiology; D014644:Genetic Variation / Q000276:immunology*; D054892:Metagenome; D008954:Models, Biological; D010802:Phylogeny; D012329:RNA, Bacterial / Q000032:analysis; D016053:RNA, Protozoan / Q000032:analysis
chemical_list: D016054:DNA, Protozoan; D004275:DNA, Ribosomal; D012329:RNA, Bacterial; D016053:RNA, Protozoan