New Dimensions in Microbial Ecology—Functional Genes in Studies to Unravel the Biodiversity and Role of Functional Microbial Groups in the Environment

During the past decades, tremendous advances have been made in the possibilities to study the diversity of microbial communities in the environment. The development of methods to study these communities on the basis of 16S rRNA gene sequences analysis was a first step into the molecular analysis of...

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Main Author: Johannes F. Imhoff
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-05-01
Series:Microorganisms
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/4/2/19