Metagenomics and its connection to microbial community organization
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Metagenomics and its connection to microbial community organization
Microbes dominate most global biogeochemical cycles, and microbial metagenomics (studying the collective microbial genomes) provides invaluable new insights into microbial systems, independent of cultivation. Metagenomic approaches targeting specific genes, e.g. small subunit (ssu) ribosomal RNA (rRNA), can be used to investigate microbial community organization by efficiently showing which tax...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: F1000 Biology Reports
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1757-594X
DOI: 10.3410/b4-15