Approaches to prokaryotic biodiversity: A population genetics perspective

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 628-633

  Rodríguez Valera, Francisco ^a  

^a MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOMICS; MICROBIOLOGY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0036860576     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-2920.2002.00354.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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