Archived A New Way to Find the Tree of Life's Missing Branches (theatlantic.com)
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Archived A New Way to Find the Tree of Life's Missing Branches (theatlantic.com)
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'First, they realized it’s possible to add extra letters to the ends of any microbe’s 16S rRNA gene. '
'Traditional sequencing methods are usually biased toward finding microbes whose 16S rRNA gene is similar to ones previously sequenced. '
'Soon, they were on their way to getting nearly 2 million 16S rRNA sequences. '
'For now, what 16S rRNA sequencing and this novel method can do is create a roadmap for those undiscovered branches of life. '
'So there was no need to know the underlying gene sequence, and no primer bias. '
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