Earth Systems Science & Policy
Biotechnology Lab
an Introduction to Molecular Biology Laboratory Techniques
with Earth Systems applications
Henrik Kibak - Spring 2005

Microbial Diversity

Ribosomal RNA

Noller Lab Website

Why use rRNA for microbial taxonomy?

rRNA Tree Of Life

Interactive Tree of Life from Science Magazine.

Ribosomal Database Project-II Release 9

Release 9 of the RDP is designed to deliver up-to-date data to our users in an era of cheap sequencing. Release 9 contains 114,231 aligned and annotated Bacterial small-subunit rRNA sequences, and is updated frequently.