Counting the Uncountable: Statistical Approaches to Estimating Microbial Diversity

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• Publication year

  2001

• Venue

  Applied and Environmental Microbiology

• Publication date

  2001-10-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1128/AEM.67.10.4399-4406.2001PMID 11571135PMCID PMC93182
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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