Simultaneous assessment of soil microbial community structure and function through analysis of the meta-transcriptome.
Soil ecosystems harbor the most complex prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbial communities on Earth. Experimental approaches studying these systems usually focus on either the soil community's taxonomic structure or its functional characteristics. Many methods target DNA as marker molecule and us...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2008-06-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2424134?pdf=render |