"Many organisms important to human health... haven't even been named, let alone studied," reports Ewen Callaway in @nature.com, citing Nicola Segata at University of Trento https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00038-x #darkdata
These are the 20 most-studied bacteria — the majority have been ignored

Model microbes such as Escherichia coli hog scientists’ attention, leaving most known bacteria with few publications devoted to them.