Natural variation in SAR11 marine bacterioplankton genomes inferred from metagenomic data

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>One objective of metagenomics is to reconstruct information about specific uncultured organisms from fragmentary environmental DNA sequences. We used the genome of an isolate of the marine alphaproteobacterium SAR11 ('<it>...

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Main Authors: Wilhelm Larry J, Tripp H James, Givan Scott A, Smith Daniel P, Giovannoni Stephen J
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2007-11-01
Series:Biology Direct
Online Access:http://www.biology-direct.com/content/2/1/27