Metagenomics: DNA sequencing of environmental samples

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 805-814

  Tringe, Susannah Green ^a   Rubin, Edward M ^a  

^a DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ANIMAL; BACTERIUM CULTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DNA ISOLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOLOGICAL GENETICS; GENOME; GENOMICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HOST; HUMAN; LABORATORY; MICROORGANISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PATHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PLANT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; SAMPLING; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SYMBIOSIS; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; GENETICS, MICROBIAL; GENOMICS; HUMANS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 33644692952     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1709     Document Type: Review

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