Toward molecular trait-based ecology through integration of biogeochemical, geographical and metagenomic data

Molecular Systems Biology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Raes, Jeroen ^a,b   Letunic, Ivica ^a   Yamada, Takuji ^a   Jensen, Lars Juhl ^a,c   Bork, Peer ^a,d  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c NNF Center for Protein Research   (Denmark)

^d MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ecosystems biology; environmental genomics; metagenomics; microbiology; molecular trait based ecology

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GEOGRAPHY; METAGENOMICS; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MOLECULAR ECOLOGY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SUNLIGHT; ALGORITHM; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; GENE LOCUS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

SEA WATER;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALGORITHMS; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC LOCI; GEOGRAPHY; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; METAGENOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; OCEANS AND SEAS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEAWATER; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79952719497     PISSN: 17444292     EISSN: 17444292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/msb.2011.6     Document Type: Article

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