Metagenomics: Genomic analysis of microbial communities

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 38, Issue , 2004, Pages 525-552

  Riesenfeld, Christian S ^a   Schloss, Patrick D ^a   Handelsman, Jo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

And unculturable bacteria; Community genomics; Culture independent; Environmental genomics; Microbial ecology

Indexed keywords

PROTEORHODOPSIN; RHODOPSIN; STABLE ISOTOPE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; ACIDOBACTERIUM; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROFLORA; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEA; VIRUS;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BACTERIOPHAGES; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; GENE LIBRARY; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC LIBRARY; MICROSCOPY; PHYLOGENY; RHODOPSIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ACIDOBACTERIUM; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); UNCULTURED BACTERIUM;

EID: 10944226351     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.38.072902.091216     Document Type: Review

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