Microbial diversity - Insights from population genetics

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 251-264

  Mes, Ted H M ^a,b  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOLOGY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GENETICS;

BIODIVERSITY; CARBON; ECOLOGY; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NITROGEN; POPULATION DENSITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 38149124678     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01449.x     Document Type: Article

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