Microbial community genomics in the ocean

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 459-469

  DeLong, Edward F ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEA;

BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; GENOMICS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; SEAWATER;

EID: 19144362371     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1158     Document Type: Review

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