Introducing TreeClimber, a test to compare microbial community structures

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 2379-2384

  Schloss, Patrick D ^a   Handelsman, Jo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; GENETIC ENGINEERING;

ECOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY; PARSIMONY TEST; PHYLOGENETIC; POPULATION GENETICS;

MICROBIOLOGY;

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS; POPULATION GENETICS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ECOLOGY; MICROFLORA; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETIC PARAMETERS;

ALGORITHMS; BACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; FECES; GENE LIBRARY; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOFTWARE; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 33646116078     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.72.4.2379-2384.2006     Document Type: Article

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