New approaches to analyzing microbial biodiversity data

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 282-287

  Bohannan, Brendan J M ^a   Hughes, Jennifer ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ANALYSIS; ECOLOGY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROFLORA; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PARAMETRIC TEST; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; REVIEW;

EID: 0038265185     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-5274(03)00055-9     Document Type: Review

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