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Cool paper! Also glad we are moving towards Patescibacteria and not CPR:

"Genetic manipulation of Patescibacteria provides mechanistic insights into microbial dark matter and the epibiotic lifestyle"

doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2023.08…

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I'm glad to learn that the CPR bacteria gradually loose their acronym (for me, "CPR" always stood for "Carmen Peral Ruiz", a former not-so-nice colleague 😎)
and that "Patesci..." is not a person's name but derived from a latin verb [
lpsn.dsmz.de/superphylum/pates…]. but I fail to grasp the "laid bare" meaning in the context of these wonderful/wondrous lilliputians.
(I should think less during vacation, probably)

Superphylum: Patescibacteria

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@STCmicrobeblog the term CPR was more commonly used when it was thought that the lineage was a large collection of phyla that were basal-branching to all other bacteria. Now we know that they have a more restricted phylogenetic breadth and are placed near the chloroflexi.
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with this 👇 fenomenal view right before my eyes right now, you probably understand why I don't jump instantly into discussing where (the heck) to place in the tree the patescibacteria 😂
pico, seen from horta harbor, faial, açores [own photo]

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