Composite Image of Robert Hungate and Rumen Microbiome (IMAGE)

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Composite Image of Robert Hungate and Rumen Microbiome

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Robert Hungate, the microbiologist who invented the widely-used method of cultivating strictly anaerobic bacteria that now bears his name. This image complements a news release regarding a Nature Biotechnology paper including Joint Genome Institute scientists describing a reference catalog of rumen microbial genomes and isolates, one of the largest targeted cultivation and sequencing projects to date.

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Image of Robert Hungate from Special Collections, University of California Library, Davis, composite image by Rekha Seshadri (Joint Genome Institute) and Zosia Rostomian (Berkeley Lab Creative Services).

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