An evolutionary ecology perspective on comparative metagenomics

Metagenomics and its Applications in Agriculture, Biomedicine and Environmental Studies

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 211-236

  Ebert, Dieter ^a   Qi, Weihong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS CENTER ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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