Researchers sequence genome of mysterious candidate phylum TM6 bacteria
Tuesday, June 11, 2013 - 10:30
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org) —Researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute have succeeded in sequencing the genome of a mysterious type of bacteria known only by its status—candidate phylum TM6. The sample sequenced, the team reports in their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was found in a sink drain in a hospital.