title: [Introduction and progress of molecular microbial ecology].
abstract: Molecular microbial ecology is an interdisciplinary field of molecular biological techniques and microbial ecology, which deals with microbial population, diversity, function, and relationships between microorganisms and biotic and abotic environments in microbial ecosystem. All the progress in molecular microbial ecology, especially in microbial diversity, phylogeny and communities of some microoganisms, indicate the renovation in traditional microbial ecology by the introduction of molecular techniques and strategies. This article reviewed the ideation, development, key domains, main methods and the future hot fields in molecular microbial ecology.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Terrestrial Ecological Process, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016. huiwen-zhang@yahoo.com.cn
authors.forename: Huiwen
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Qianru
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Qixing
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Chenggang
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D004463:Ecology; D004783:Environmental Microbiology; D017404:In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence; D008967:Molecular Biology; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction