Home Life: Factors Structuring the Bacterial Diversity Found within and between Homes

Robert R. Dunn; Noah Fierer; Jessica B. Henley; Jonathan W. Leff; Holly L. Menninger

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0064133

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Home Life: Factors Structuring the Bacterial Diversity Found within and between Homes

Robert R. Dunn ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Robert R. Dunn, Noah Fierer, Jessica B. Henley, Jonathan W. Leff, Holly L. Menninger

* E-mail: Rob_Dunn@ncsu.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology and Keck Center for Behavioral Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
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Noah Fierer ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Robert R. Dunn, Noah Fierer, Jessica B. Henley, Jonathan W. Leff, Holly L. Menninger

Affiliations Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America
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Jessica B. Henley ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Robert R. Dunn, Noah Fierer, Jessica B. Henley, Jonathan W. Leff, Holly L. Menninger

Affiliation Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America
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Jonathan W. Leff ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Robert R. Dunn, Noah Fierer, Jessica B. Henley, Jonathan W. Leff, Holly L. Menninger

Affiliation Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America
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Holly L. Menninger

Contributed equally to this work with: Robert R. Dunn, Noah Fierer, Jessica B. Henley, Jonathan W. Leff, Holly L. Menninger

Affiliation Department of Biology and Keck Center for Behavioral Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
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Home Life: Factors Structuring the Bacterial Diversity Found within and between Homes

Robert R. Dunn,
Noah Fierer,
Jessica B. Henley,
Jonathan W. Leff,
Holly L. Menninger

Published: May 22, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0064133

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