Quantitative phylogenetic assessment of microbial communities in diverse environments

Science

Volumn 315, Issue 5815, 2007, Pages 1126-1130

  Von Mering, C ^a,d   Hugenholtz, P ^b   Raes, J ^a   Tringe, S G ^b   Doerks, T ^a   Jensen, L J ^a   Ward, N ^c   Bork, P ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; GENETIC MARKER; HABITAT SELECTION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PHYLOGENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOMASS; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HABITAT SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BONE AND BONES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, RRNA; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOMICS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MINING; PHYLOGENY; SEAWATER; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WHALES;

EID: 33847291893     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1133420     Document Type: Article

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