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SUBMITTER: McGrath KC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2976231 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
McGrath Ken C KC Mondav Rhiannon R Sintrajaya Regina R Slattery Bill B Schmidt Susanne S Schenk Peer M PM
Applied and environmental microbiology 20100917 21
Functional attributes of microbial communities are difficult to study, and most current techniques rely on DNA- and rRNA-based profiling of taxa and genes, including microarrays containing sequences of known microorganisms. To quantify gene expression in environmental samples in a culture-independent manner, we constructed an environmental functional gene microarray (E-FGA) consisting of 13,056 mRNA-enriched anonymous microbial clones from diverse microbial communities to profile microbial gene ...[more]