Microbial biodiversity: Approaches to experimental design and hypothesis testing in primary scientific literature from 1975 to 1999

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 592-616

  Morris, Cindy E ^a   Bardin, Marc ^a   Berge, Odile ^c   Frey Klett, Pascale ^d   Fromin, Nathalie ^h   Girardin, Hélène ^b   Guinebretière, Marie Hélène ^b   Lebaron, Philippe ^e   Thiéry, Jean M ^f   Troussellier, Marc ^g  

^a INRA   (France)

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^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^e SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^f ModLibreorg   (France)

^g UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^h UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

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ANALYTIC METHOD; DATA BASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; HYPOTHESIS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL IDENTIFICATION; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SPACE; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; TIME;

BACTERIA; DATABASES; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; PUBLICATIONS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 18744380657     PISSN: 10922172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MMBR.66.4.592-616.2002     Document Type: Review

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