An Overview of Cultural, Molecular and Metagenomic Techniques in Description of Microbial Diversity

Profiling of complex microbial populations by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis analysis of polymerase chain reaction-amplified genes coding for 16S rRNA

Gerard Muyzer, Ellen C. de Waal, André G. Uitterlinden · Applied and Environmental Microbiology · 1993 · 11.4K citations · Full text

Biology, Microbial Diversity, Molecular Ecology +11

Environmental Genome Shotgun Sequencing of the Sargasso Sea

J. Craig Venter, Karin Remington, John F. Heidelberg et al. · Science · 2004 · 4.3K citations

Engineering, Genomics, Whole-genome Shotgun +16

Microbial diversity in the deep sea and the underexplored “rare biosphere”

Mitchell L. Sogin, Hilary G. Morrison, Julie A. Huber et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2006 · 3.7K citations · Full text

Engineering, Deep-sea Ecology, Microbial Evolution +19

Classification and Characterization of Heterotrophic Microbial Communities on the Basis of Patterns of Community-Level Sole-Carbon-Source Utilization

Jay L. Garland, Aaron L. Mills · Applied and Environmental Microbiology · 1991 · 2.2K citations · Full text

Engineering, Heterotrophic Microbial Communities, Synthetic Ecology +16

The Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling Expedition: Northwest Atlantic through Eastern Tropical Pacific

Douglas B. Rusch, Aaron L. Halpern, Granger Sutton et al. · PLoS Biology · 2007 · 2.1K citations · Full text

Engineering, Oceanography, Northwest Atlantic +25