Metagenomics: Microbial diversity through a scratched lens

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 605-612

  Temperton, Ben ^a   Giovannoni, Stephen J ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SCAFFOLD PROTEIN;

CHIMERA; COST; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROMANIPULATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PROBABILITY; PYROSEQUENCING; REVIEW; TAXONOMY;

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, MICROBIAL; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; METAGENOMICS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84868091529     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: 18790364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2012.07.001     Document Type: Review

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