The influence of sex, handedness, and washing on the diversity of hand surface bacteria

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 46, 2008, Pages 17994-17999

  Fierer, Noah ^a   Hamady, Micah ^b   Lauber, Christian L ^a   Knight, Rob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

Human microbiome; Pyrosequencing; Skin bacteria

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAND WASHING; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; MALE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SKIN FLORA;

BACTERIA; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENETIC VARIATION; HAND; HUMANS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SKIN CARE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 56649124715     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0807920105     Document Type: Article

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