Resolving functional diversity in relation to microbial community structure in soil: Exploiting genomics and stable isotope probing

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 295-301

  Wellington, Elizabeth M H ^a   Berry, Andrew ^a   Krsek, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; RNA; STABLE ISOTOPE; TOLUENE;

ALPHA CHAIN; BACTERIUM; BIOREACTOR; DENITRIFICATION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA ISOLATION; ECOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOMICS; MICROFLORA; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT NUTRIENT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA EXTRACTION; RNA GENE; SOIL;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI;

EID: 0038265142     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-5274(03)00066-3     Document Type: Review

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