Environmental microbiology: Around the globe in 2.2 billion sequences

Nature Reviews Microbiology 16, 3 (2018). doi:10.1038/nrmicro.2017.152 Author: Ursula Hofer The Earth Microbiome Project has published its first comprehensive overview of global microbial diversity. The project received 27,751 samples, which originated from 43 countries and covered diverse environments ranging from ocean sediments to plant pollen. Thompson et al. isolated, amplified and sequenced 16S rRNA
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