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Prevalence of unclassified bacteria in tropical coastal waters of malaysia revealed by metagenomic approach

Chan KG 1 , Chong TM

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  • 1 Division of Genetics and Molecular Biology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Genome Announc, 2014;2(3).
PMID: 24812226 DOI: 10.1128/genomeA.00419-14

Abstract

The metagenomes of marine prokaryotes from coastal seawaters in Malaysia are reported in this study. The investigation of the microbial communities using 16S rRNA gene amplicon metagenomic sequencing revealed that majority of the bacteria in the seawater samples remain unclassified.

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