Community genomics in microbial ecology and evolution

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 489-498

  Allen, Eric E ^a   Banfield, Jillian F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DNA MICROARRAY; ECOLOGICAL GENETICS; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC STRAIN; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MICROFLORA; MOLECULAR ECOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

DNA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENOMICS; PROTEOMICS;

EID: 19044401068     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1157     Document Type: Review

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