Microbial ecology: from microscopy to genomic and bioinformatics analysis
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https://doi.org/10.30973/inventio/2022.18.46/6Keywords:
microorganism, microscopy, microbial cultures, molecular biology, microbial ecologyAbstract
Microbial ecology is responsible for the study of the interactions of microorganisms among themselves and with their environment, whose knowledge allows understanding the structure and composition of microbial communities in a given habitat, such as little explored extreme ecosystems or environments of the human domain. Moreover, it allows the association of the metabolic processes of some microorganisms with biotechnological applications in industries such as food, pharmaceuticals or agriculture. These technological applications are only possible when the identity and function of the microbial communities that carry out these processes, the field of study of microbial ecology, are known in detail.
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