Bacterial and Archaeal Community Structure and its Patterns

Microbial Ecology of the Oceans: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 45-90

  Fuhrman, Jed A ^a   Hagström, Åke ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

"classically" culturable bacteria; Bacterial and archaeal community structure and patterns; Bacterial community and spatial variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891283485     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470281840.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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