Microbial biogeography: The end of the ubiquitous dispersal hypothesis?

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 544-546

  van der Gast, Christopher J ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RBCL PROTEIN, PLASTID; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE;

GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; STREPTOPHYTA;

GENETIC VARIATION; RIBULOSE-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; STREPTOPHYTA;

EID: 84925115588     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12635     Document Type: Note

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