Archaeal lineages within the human microbiome: Absent, rare or elusive?

Life

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1333-1345

  Horz, Hans Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anthropology of microbes; Human microbiome; Human associated archaea; Intestinal disorders; Periodontal disease; Rare biosphere

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84930959073     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20751729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/life5021333     Document Type: Review

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