Beyond the genome: Community-level analysis of the microbial world

Biology and Philosophy

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 261-282

  Zarraonaindia, Iratxe ^a,b   Smith, Daniel P ^a   Gilbert, Jack A ^a,c  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

'Omic approach; Community dynamics; Metagenomics; Microbial community analysis; Next generation sequencing; Spatiotemporal sampling

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; GENOME; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84874566601     PISSN: 01693867     EISSN: 15728404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10539-012-9357-8     Document Type: Article

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