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NALT Concept Space
U.S. Department of Agriculture

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Concept information

  1. Fields of Study
  2. genetics
  3. genomics
  4. metagenomics

Preferred term

metagenomics

Type

  • Topic

Definition

  • Information Analysis of the genetic material in a collection of organisms, usually applied to uncultured, mixed-species microbial communities in their natural environment.

    Source: NAL Thesaurus Staff

    Type: Concept definition

Broader concept

Related concepts

Synonyms

  • community genomics
  • ecogenomics
  • ecological genomics
  • environmental genomics
  • metagenome
  • metagenomic analysis
  • (meta)genomics
  • meta genomics
  • meta-genomics
  • population genomics

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URI

https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/147744

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