Experimental tests of the bacterial distance-decay relationship

ISME Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1357-1365

  Bell, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bacteria; community similarity; distance decay; natural microcosms; tree holes

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

AQUATIC COMMUNITY; BACTERIUM; COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROCOSM; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TREEHOLE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MICROBIOLOGY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TIME;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; TIME FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 77958492668     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2010.77     Document Type: Article

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