Exploration of community traits as ecological markers in microbial metagenomes

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1909-1917

  Barberán, Albert ^a   Fernández Guerra, Antoni ^a   Bohannan, Brendan J M ^b   Casamayor, Emilio O ^a  

^a CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

community ecology; functional traits; Global Ocean Sampling; metagenomics; microbial ecology

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PACIFIC OCEAN; RNA GENE; SEA;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ECOSYSTEM; GENES, RRNA; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; OCEANS AND SEAS; PACIFIC OCEAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER;

EID: 84859614217     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05383.x     Document Type: Article

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