Genomic studies of uncultivated archaea

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 479-488

  Schleper, Christa ^a   Jurgens, German ^b   Jonuscheit, Melanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CRENARCHAEOTA; ECOLOGICAL GENETICS; EURYARCHAEOTA; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LAND BIOME; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; METHANOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; MICROORGANISM; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR ECOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; REVIEW; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEA; BIODIVERSITY; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; PHYLOGENY; PLANKTON; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CRENARCHAEOTA; EURYARCHAEOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 19144373707     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1159     Document Type: Review

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