The '1% culturability paradigm' needs to be carefully defined

Adam C Martiny^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA. amartiny@uci.edu.
² Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA. amartiny@uci.edu.

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Adam C Martiny. ISME J. 2020 Jan.

. 2020 Jan;14(1):10-11.

doi: 10.1038/s41396-019-0507-8. Epub 2019 Sep 24.

Adam C Martiny^{1

2}

¹ Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA. amartiny@uci.edu.
² Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA. amartiny@uci.edu.

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