Two decades of describing the unseen majority of aquatic microbial diversity

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1878-1896

  Zinger, Lucie ^a   Gobet, Angélique ^b,c   Pommier, Thomas ^d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b STATION BIOLOGIQUE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ D EVRY VAL D ESSONNE   (France)

^d University of Lyon   (France)

Author keywords

aquatic ecosystems; high throughput sequencing; microbial diversity; NGS

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAL DNA; BACTERIAL DNA; FRESH WATER; SEA WATER;

ARCHAEON; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84859605159     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05362.x     Document Type: Review

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