Molecular methods to study complex microbial communities
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T1 - Molecular methods to study complex microbial communities
AU - Vieites, José M
AU - Guazzaroni, María-Eugenia
AU - Beloqui, Ana
AU - Golyshin, Peter N
AU - Ferrer, Manuel
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Microbes, which constitute a major fraction of the total biomass, are the main source of biodiversity on our Planet and play an essential role in maintaining global processes, which ultimately regulate the functioning of the Biosphere. Recent emergence of "metagenomics" allows for the analysis of microbial communities without tedious cultivation efforts. Metagenomics approach is analogous to the genomics with the difference that it does not deal with the single genome from a clone or microbe cultured or characterized in laboratory, but rather with that from the entire microbial community present in an environmental sample; it is the community genome. Global understanding by metagenomics depends essentially on the possibility of isolating the entire bulk DNA and identifying the genomes, genes, and proteins more relevant to each of the environmental sample under investigation. Following on this, in this chapter, we provide an analysis of methods available to isolate environmental DNA and to establish metagenomic libraries that can further be used for extensive activity screens.
AB - Microbes, which constitute a major fraction of the total biomass, are the main source of biodiversity on our Planet and play an essential role in maintaining global processes, which ultimately regulate the functioning of the Biosphere. Recent emergence of "metagenomics" allows for the analysis of microbial communities without tedious cultivation efforts. Metagenomics approach is analogous to the genomics with the difference that it does not deal with the single genome from a clone or microbe cultured or characterized in laboratory, but rather with that from the entire microbial community present in an environmental sample; it is the community genome. Global understanding by metagenomics depends essentially on the possibility of isolating the entire bulk DNA and identifying the genomes, genes, and proteins more relevant to each of the environmental sample under investigation. Following on this, in this chapter, we provide an analysis of methods available to isolate environmental DNA and to establish metagenomic libraries that can further be used for extensive activity screens.
KW - Bacteria/genetics
KW - Biodiversity
KW - Cosmids/genetics
KW - DNA/analysis
KW - Environment
KW - Environmental Microbiology
KW - Gene Library
KW - Metagenome/genetics
KW - Metagenomics/methods
KW - RNA, Ribosomal, 16S/analysis
U2 - 10.1007/978-1-60761-823-2_1
DO - 10.1007/978-1-60761-823-2_1
M3 - Article
C2 - 20830553
VL - 668
SP - 1
EP - 37
JO - Methods in Molecular Biology
JF - Methods in Molecular Biology
SN - 1064-3745
ER -