Finding the needles in the metagenome haystack

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 475-485

  Kowalchuk, George A ^a,e   Speksnijder, Arjen G C L ^b   Zhang, Kun ^c   Goodman, Robert M ^d   Van Veen, Johannes A ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; PHYLOGENY;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENOMICS; PHYLOGENY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 34248211629     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-006-9201-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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