The unseen world: Environmental microbial sequencing and identification methods for ecologists

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 224-231

  Zimmerman, Naupaka ^a,b   Izard, Jacques ^c,d   Klatt, Christian ^e   Zhou, Jizhong ^f,g,h   Aronson, Emma ⁱ  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c FORSYTH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE   (United States)

^e SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^g LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^h TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA ACQUISITION; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROORGANISM; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 84903203404     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/130055     Document Type: Review

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