Biodiversity as a source of innovation in biotechnology

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue , 1992, Pages 219-252

  Bull, Alan T ^a   Goodfellow, Michael ^b   Slater, J Howard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

genetic diversity; isolation and enrichment; microbial diversity; search and discovery; taxonomic data bases

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; DATA BASE; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TAXONOMY;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 0026616309     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.46.1.219     Document Type: Review

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