Grappling with Proteus: population level approaches to understanding microbial diversity
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Grappling with Proteus: population level approaches to understanding microbial diversity
The emerging fields of microbial population genetics and genomics provide an avenue to study the ecological rules that govern how communities form, function, and evolve. Our struggle to understand the causes and consequences of microbial diversity stems from our inability to define ecologically and evolutionarily meaningful units of diversity. The 16S rRNA-based tools that have been so useful i...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Microbiology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1664-302X
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00336