Article
Microbial diversity and function in soil: from genes to ecosystems.
Current opinion in microbiology - 1 Jun 2002
Torsvik Vigdis, Øvreås Lise
Abstract excerpt
Soils sustain an immense diversity of microbes, which, to a large extent, remains unexplored. A range of novel methods, most of which are based on rRNA and rDNA analyses, have uncovered part of the soil microbial diversity. The next step in the era of microbial ecology is to extract genomic, evolutionary and functional information from bacterial artificial chromosome libraries of the soil community genomes (the...
Topics
- Bacteria
- Ecosystem
- Genes, Bacterial
- Genetic Variation
- Soil Microbiology