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Abstract. All cultivated Patescibacteria, also known as the candidate phyla radiation, are obligate episymbionts residing on other microbes. Despite being

Abstract. Saccharibacteria (formerly TM7) are a group of environmentally diverse, ultrasmall bacteria with highly reduced genomes belonging to Patescibacte