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Soil eukaryotic functional diversity, a metatranscriptomic approach.
The ISME journal - 1 Nov 2007
Bailly Julie, Fraissinet-Tachet Laurence, Verner Marie-Christine, Debaud Jean-Claude, Lemaire Marc, Wésolowski-Louvel Micheline, Marmeisse Roland
Abstract excerpt
To appreciate the functional diversity of communities of soil eukaryotic micro-organisms we evaluated an experimental approach based on the construction and screening of a cDNA library using polyadenylated mRNA extracted from a forest soil. Such a library contains genes that are expressed by each of the different organisms forming the community and represents its metatranscriptome. The diversity of the organisms...
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