Microbial biogeography of public restroom surfaces.

We spend the majority of our lives indoors where we are constantly exposed to bacteria residing on surfaces. However, the diversity of these surface-associated communities is largely unknown. We explored the biogeographical patterns exhibited by bacteria across ten surfaces within each of twelve pub...

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Main Authors: Gilberto E Flores, Scott T Bates, Dan Knights, Christian L Lauber, Jesse Stombaugh, Rob Knight, Noah Fierer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3223236?pdf=render