Jordaan, Karen; Lappan, Rachael; Dong, Xiyang; Aitkenhead, Ian J.; Bay, Sean K.; Chiri, Eleonora; Wieler, Nimrod; Meredith, Laura K.; Cowan, Don A.; Chown, Steven L.; Greening, Chris(American Society for Microbiology, 2020-11-17)
How the diverse bacterial communities inhabiting desert soils maintain
energy and carbon needs is much debated. Traditionally, most bacteria are thought
to persist by using organic carbon synthesized by photoautotrophs ...
