Community profiling and quantification of putative autotrophic thaumarchaeal communities in environmental samples

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 245-253

  Offre, Pierre ^a   Nicol, Graeme W ^a   Prosser, James I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

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ARCHAEA;

EID: 79954572877     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2010.00217.x     Document Type: Article

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