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Review
. 2004 Jun;15(3):187-90.
doi: 10.1016/j.copbio.2004.03.005.

To BAC or not to BAC: marine ecogenomics

Oded Béjà  1
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Review

To BAC or not to BAC: marine ecogenomics

Oded Béjà. Curr Opin Biotechnol. 2004 Jun.

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.

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