Evidence from GC-TRFLP that bacterial communities in soil are lognormally distributed

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Doroghazi, James R ^a   Buckley, Daniel H ^a  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CYTOSINE; GENOMIC DNA; GUANINE; RNA 16S; BACTERIAL RNA;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RNA SEQUENCE; SOIL MICROFLORA; TAXONOMY; TERMINAL RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; VALIDATION PROCESS; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); OTUS;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 51449084871     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002910     Document Type: Article

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