Article
Microbial diversity in the era of omic technologies.
BioMed research international - 1 Jan 2013
Nikolaki Sofia, Tsiamis George
Abstract excerpt
Human life and activity depends on microorganisms, as they are responsible for providing basic elements of life. Although microbes have such a key role in sustaining basic functions for all living organisms, very little is known about their biology since only a small fraction (average 1%) can be...
Topics
- Bacteria
- Ecology
- Genes, Bacterial
- Genetic Variation
- High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing
- Humans
- Microbial Consortia
- Microbiota
- Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis
- Phylogeny
- RNA, Bacterial
- RNA, Ribosomal, 16S
- Species Specificity
