Integration of microbial ecology and statistics: A test to compare gene libraries

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 5485-5492

  Schloss, Patrick D ^a   Larget, Bret R ^a,b   Handelsman, Jo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; ECOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; RNA; SAMPLING; SOILS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

LIBSHUFF COMPUTER PROGRAMME; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; MICROFLORA; WISCONSIN SOILS;

GENES;

RIBOSOME RNA;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CELL LINE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ECOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; INTESTINE FLORA; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; SOIL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STATISTICS; ZEBRA FISH;

AEROMONAS; ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE LIBRARY; PSEUDOMONAS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOIL; ZEBRAFISH;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DANIO RERIO;

EID: 4644275463     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.9.5485-5492.2004     Document Type: Article

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