Browsing Science (Faculty of) by Subject "16S rRNA gene"
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Bacterial biogeography of the rare Charitable Research Reserve
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-30)Soil microbial communities play a dominant role in global biogeochemical cycles, with profound effects on agriculture, ecosystem stability, human health, and global climate. As a result, assessing their biogeographic ... -
Targeting novel soil glycosyl hydrolases by combining stable isotope probing and metagenomics
(University of Waterloo, 2014-02-25)Soil represents the largest global reservoir of microbial diversity for the discovery of novel genes and enzymes. Both stable-isotope probing (SIP) and metagenomics have been used to access uncultured microbial diversity, ...