Counting the Uncountable: Statistical Approaches to Estimating Microbial Diversity

Abstract

All biologists who sample natural communities are plagued with the problem of how well a sample reflects a community's “true” diversity. New genetic techniques have revealed extensive microbial diversity that was previously undetected with culture-dependent methods and morphological

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Diversity (politics)Genetic diversitySample (material)BiologyUncountable setEvolutionary biologyMathematicsSociologyAnthropologyPopulation

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Stanford University US

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Year: 2001
Type: review
Volume: 67
Issue: 10
Pages: 4399-4406
Citations: 1289
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                                    J.B. Hughes, 
                                
                                    Jessica J. Hellmann, 
                                
                                    Taylor H. Ricketts
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (2001). 
                            Counting the Uncountable: Statistical Approaches to Estimating Microbial Diversity. 
                            Applied and Environmental Microbiology
                            , 67
                            (10)
                            , 4399-4406.
                            https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.67.10.4399-4406.2001
                        

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DOI: 10.1128/aem.67.10.4399-4406.2001