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Since the late 1990s, sequencing technologies have allowed microbial genomes to be studied directly in samples taken from their natural environments, bypassing the need to culture them in the lab. New approaches are now addressing fundamental questions about the diversity of bacteria and how they act in their native environments. In this collection, Nature presents a selection of papers that combine the latest techniques to explore whole microbial communities and track individual species in uncultured samples ranging from seawater to soil.
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An obesity-associated gut microbiome with increased capacity for energy harvest
Peter J. Turnbaugh, Ruth E. Ley, Michael A. Mahowald, Vincent Magrini, Elaine R. Mardis & Jeffrey I. Gordon
Nature 444, 1027-1031 (21 December 2006) doi:10.1038/nature05414
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Symbiosis insights through metagenomic analysis of a microbial consortium
Woyke T et al.
Nature 443, 950-955 (26 October 2006) doi:10.1038/nature05192
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Archaea predominate among ammonia-oxidizing prokaryotes in soils
S. Leininger et al.
Nature 442, 806-809 (17 August 2006) doi:10.1038/nature04983
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Deciphering the evolution and metabolism of an anammox bacterium from a community genome
Strous M et al.
Nature 440, 790-794 (6 April 2006) doi:10.1038/nature04647
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Review
Metagenomics: DNA sequencing of environmental samples Free access
Susannah Green Tringe & Edward M. Rubin
Nature Reviews Genetics 6, 805-814 (November 2005) doi:10.1038/nrg1709
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