Article
Global patterns in bacterial diversity.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 3 Jul 2007
Lozupone Catherine A, Knight Rob
Abstract excerpt
Microbes are difficult to culture. Consequently, the primary source of information about a fundamental evolutionary topic, life's diversity, is the environmental distribution of gene sequences. We report the most comprehensive analysis of the environmental distribution of bacteria to date, based on 21,752 16S rRNA sequences compiled from 111 studies of diverse physical environments. We clustered the samples based...
Topics
- Adaptation, Biological
- Bacteria
- Biodiversity
- Demography
- Ecology
- Genetic Variation
- Phylogeny
- RNA, Bacterial
- RNA, Ribosomal, 16S
- Soil Microbiology