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Empirical and theoretical bacterial diversity in four Arizona soils.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Jun 2002
Dunbar John, Barns Susan M, Ticknor Lawrence O, Kuske Cheryl R
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Understanding patterns of biodiversity in microbial communities is severely constrained by the difficulty of adequately sampling these complex systems. We illustrate the problem with empirical data from small surveys (200-member 16S rRNA gene clone libraries) of four bacterial soil communities from two locations in Arizona. Among the four surveys, nearly 500 species-level groups ( Dunbar et al., Appl. Environ....
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