The diversity of microbes: Resurgence of the phenotype

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 361, Issue 1475, 2006, Pages 1965-1973

  Fenchel, Tom ^a   Finlay, Bland J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ancient microbial phenotypes; Biogeography; Eukaryotic micro organisms; Genetic distances; Species concept; Species richness

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; EUKARYOTE; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENOTYPE; PHENOTYPE;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 33751255084     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2006.1924     Document Type: Conference Paper

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