Microbial Population Biology

For tomorrow’s lecture, you might want to give this news article a quick read: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0050074 It speaks of the controversies surrounding microbial bioprospecting efforts, esp. those of Venter et al. Another booklet that describes metagenomics and its goals and promises can be found here: http://dels.nas.edu/dels/rpt_briefs/metagenomics_final.pdf The complete version of the report from the National Academy [...]

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