Rapid Estimation of Population Densities of Uncultured Bacteria in the Environment

Microbes and Environments

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 123-127

  Watanabe, Kazuya ^a   Harayama, Shigeaki ^a  

^a MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

population density; temperature gradient gel electrophoresis; uncultured bacteria

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344421540     PISSN: 13426311     EISSN: 13474405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.13.123     Document Type: Article

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