What in earth? Analysing soil bacterial communities.
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?
Hodder
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University of Liverpool, UK. karlh@liverpool.ac.uk
D001419:Bacteria / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D018533:Biomass; D017753:Ecosystem; D008967:Molecular Biology / Q000379:methods*; D012988:Soil Microbiology