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Aug 2026
Novelty, diversity, and genetic dark matter in enterococci of invertebrates
ABSTRACT Enterococci appear to have originated in the guts of early terrestrializing arthropods and invertebrates over 425 million years ago—hosts that are now highly diverse and widespread in nature today. Yet most knowledge of the genus comes from human infection-associated lineages with genomes swollen by the recent...
Bruna Sgardioli, M. C. Phillips, Arjun M. Miklos et al.
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