Dispersing misconceptions and identifying opportunities for the use of 'omics' in soil microbial ecology

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 439-446

  Prosser, James I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; SOIL;

ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; INTESTINE; METABOLISM; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOIL; SOIL MICROFLORA; ARCHAEON; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; METAGENOME; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84931576224     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro3468     Document Type: Review

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