title: What in earth? Analysing soil bacterial communities.
abstract: Walk into any field and you will at once see dozens of plant and animal species. However, below your feet and largely unnoticed, lies a population of unseen millions. Can the introduction of powerful molecular biological techniques increase our understanding of how these hidden bacterial communities function in their natural environment?
authors.affiliation: University of Liverpool, UK. karlh@liverpool.ac.uk
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hodder
mesh_terms: D001419:Bacteria / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D018533:Biomass; D017753:Ecosystem; D008967:Molecular Biology / Q000379:methods*; D012988:Soil Microbiology