Counting the Uncountable: Statistical Approaches to Estimating Microbial Diversity

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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