Which is more important for classifying microbial communities: Who's there or what they can do?

ISME Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2357-2359

  Xu, Zhenjiang ^a   Malmer, Daniel ^a   Langille, Morgan G I ^b   Way, Samuel F ^c   Knight, Rob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAGENOMICS; PHYLOGENY;

METAGENOMICS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84961291157     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2014.157     Document Type: Note

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