What is the extent of prokaryotic diversity?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 361, Issue 1475, 2006, Pages 2023-2037

  Curtis, Thomas P ^a   Head, Ian M ^a   Lunn, Mary ^b   Woodcock, Stephen ^c   Schloss, Patrick D ^d   Sloan, William T ^c  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Archaea; Bacteria; Diversity; Neutral community model; Sampling; Species richness

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BACTERIUM; MODEL VALIDATION; PROKARYOTE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

EID: 33751226288     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2006.1921     Document Type: Conference Paper

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