Soil metagenomics: Exploring and exploiting the soil microbial gene pool

Modern Soil Microbiology, Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 409-434

  Sjöling, Sara ^a   Stafford, William ^b   Cowan, Don A ^b  

^a School of Life Sciences Södertörn University   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

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