Editorial
Nature Reviews Microbiology 4, 488 (July 2006) | doi:10.1038/nrmicro1455
Microbial ecologists: it's time to 'go large'
Tom Curtis1
Author affiliations
- Tom Curtis is a BBSRC fellow and Professor of Environmental Engineeering in the School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle, NE1 7RU, UK.Email: Tom.Curtis@newcastle.ac.uk.
Abstract
The extent of microbial diversity in the environment is beginning to be assessed by environmental genomics studies, but are these studies large enough? Here, Tom Curtis issues a call to arms for microbial ecologists — it's time to start thinking big.