Functional gene analysis and cultivation experiments predict the degradation of diverse extracellular polysaccharides by ubiquitous taxa in pustular microbial mats from Shark Bay, Western Australia
E. M. Cutts, C. Schauberger, E. J. Skoog, T. Bosak
The paper identifies microbial taxa involved in EPS degradation in Shark Bay microbial mats using metagenomics and experimental analysis, revealing distinct roles for various phyla in polysaccharide breakdown.
bioRxiv · May 18, 2022 · PreprintMicrobiology