Functional diversity of stochastically assembled freshwater bacteria
We performed an experiment in which freshwater bacteria from lake Zurich were grown in identical conditions (2 mL of lake bacteria in 200 mL, 20°C, in the dark, in Artificial Lake Water enriched with glucose and cellobiose). 20 microcosms were generated in parallel and shotgun sequenced. We reconstructed metagenome-assembled genomes from each of the microcosms and assessed their functional diversity.