Brock Biology of Microorganisms (15th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780134261928
Author: Michael T. Madigan, Kelly S. Bender, Daniel H. Buckley, W. Matthew Sattley, David A. Stahl
Publisher: PEARSON
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The study of molecular microbial communities is known as environmental genomics or metagenomics. Earlier, microbial community analyses target to a single gene diversity in an environmental sample. Currently, the environmental genomics are used to target all genes in the microbial community. Metagenomics is used to study all genes (functional capacity) in the microbial community. Metatranscriptomics and metaproteiomics target RNAs (gene expression) and proteins in the microbial community, respectively.
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