Stingless bees, turtle ants and tea plants are rich sources of undescribed Lactobacillaceae
Knowledge of the family Lactobacillaceae rests largely on isolates from foods and a few repeatedly sampled hosts. Reference databases give an unrecognised sequence the name of its nearest relative, so a lineage with no entry of its own is renamed rather than flagged. Here we classify the family across the public plant and invertebrate amplicon record to locate the hosts carrying undescribed…
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