title: Counting the uncountable: statistical approaches to estimating microbial diversity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-5020, USA. Jennifer_Hughes@Brown.edu
authors.forename: J B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Hughes
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Hellmann
authors.forename: T H
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Ricketts
authors.forename: B J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Bohannan
mesh_terms: D001419:Bacteria / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D018407:Bacterial Physiological Phenomena; D015169:Colony Count, Microbial / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017753:Ecosystem; D004783:Environmental Microbiology; D006801:Humans; D009055:Mouth / Q000382:microbiology; D013223:Statistics as Topic / Q000379:methods; D013270:Stomach / Q000382:microbiology