Developments with Antarctic microorganisms: Culture collections, bioactivity screening, taxonomy, PUFA production and cold-adapted enzymes

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 240-246

  Nichols, David ^a   Bowman, John ^a,b   Sanderson, Kevin ^a,b   Nichols, Carol Mancuso ^a,b   Lewis, Tom ^a   McMeekin, Tom ^a,b   Nichols, Peter D ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b ANTARCTIC CLIMATE AND ECOSYSTEMS COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYME; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID;

ANTARCTICA; BIOTECHNOLOGY; DRUG ACTIVITY; ENVIRONMENT; MICROORGANISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; REVIEW; SCREENING; SOIL TREATMENT; TAXONOMY; TEMPERATURE;

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0033153071     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0958-1669(99)80042-1     Document Type: Article

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