Most prokaryotes have never been isolated in pure culture and cannot be named under the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (ICNP). However, many studies have described uncultured bacteria and archaea though metagenome-assembled genome sequences (MAGs) or single-cell amplified genomes (SAGs), often in combination with physiological or ecological data.
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