Editorial

Nature Reviews Microbiology 7, 758 (November 2009) | doi:10.1038/nrmicro2246

Giving microbial diversity a home

David Emerson1 & Willie Wilson1

Author affiliations

  1. David Emerson and Willie Wilson are at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, West Boothbay Harbor, Maine 04575, USA.

Correspondence to: David Emerson1 Email: demerson@bigelow.org

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Efforts to house environmental microbial culture collections, resources and data are lagging behind the speed of discovery in the scientific community. Emerson and Wilson explain the need to increase the investment in biological resource centres to meet this growing challenge.

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