title: Environmental genomics: exploring ecological sequence space.
abstract: The ability to extract and characterize genomic DNA fragments from mixed microbial assemblages is providing novel insights into the ecology, evolution, and metabolism of uncultured microorganisms in nature.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA. rm352@cornell.edu
authors.forename: Robert M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Morris
mesh_terms: D044822:Biodiversity; D004463:Ecology / Q000379:methods*; D004783:Environmental Microbiology; D016680:Genome, Bacterial; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods*; D009792:Oceans and Seas; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D012988:Soil Microbiology; D014871:Water Microbiology