title: To BAC or not to BAC: marine ecogenomics.
abstract: Most microbes in the ocean are still resistant to our collective cultivation efforts. Environmental microbial genomics provides science with the means for accessing and assessing the genomes, diversity, evolution and population dynamics of uncultured microorganisms--the ocean's hidden majority.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel. beja@tx.technion.ac.il
authors.forename: Oded
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Béjà
mesh_terms: D022202:Chromosomes, Artificial, Bacterial; D004463:Ecology; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D014644:Genetic Variation; D005827:Genetics, Microbial; D016678:Genome; D016680:Genome, Bacterial; D023281:Genomics; D009792:Oceans and Seas; D012623:Seawater / Q000032:analysis / Q000382:microbiology*; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000379:methods*; D014871:Water Microbiology