Counting the Uncountable: Statistical Approaches to Estimating Microbial Diversity

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 4399-4406

  Hughes, Jennifer B ^a,b   Hellmann, Jessica J ^b   Ricketts, Taylor H ^b   Bohannan, Brendan J M ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUTH; REVIEW; STATISTICS; STOMACH;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; MOUTH; STATISTICS; STOMACH;

EID: 0035487318     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.10.4399-4406.2001     Document Type: Review

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