Bacterial species may exist, metagenomics reveal

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 347-355

  Caro Quintero, Alejandro ^a   Konstantinidis, Konstantinos T ^a,b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; METAGENOMICS; PHYLOGENY; REVIEW;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; METAGENOMICS; PHYLOGENY; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84856582558     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02668.x     Document Type: Review

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