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Finding the needles in the metagenome haystack.
Microbial ecology - 1 Apr 2007
Kowalchuk George A, Speksnijder Arjen G C L, Zhang Kun, Goodman Robert M, van Veen Johannes A
Abstract excerpt
In the collective genomes (the metagenome) of the microorganisms inhabiting the Earth's diverse environments is written the history of life on this planet. New molecular tools developed and used for the past 15 years by microbial ecologists are facilitating the extraction, cloning, screening, and sequencing of these genomes. This approach allows microbial ecologists to access and study the full range of microbial...
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