Full-circle molecular microbial ecology.

MICROBIAL ecology; MICROBIOLOGY; BACTERIAL ecology; NUCLEOTIDE sequence; NUCLEOTIDE analysis; NUCLEIC acid analysis

Focuses on the importance of advances in DNA technologies for research in microbiological ecology. Use of gene sequences by scientists to mathematically compare organisms; Presence of rRNA gene sequences in all cellular organisms; Isolation of organisms from hypersaline terrestrial systems by the Salt Plains Microbial Observatory.