Metagenomics: Application of genomics to uncultured microorganisms

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 669-685

  Handelsman, Jo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIBOSOME RNA; TERRAGINE; TURBOMYCIN A; TURBOMYCIN B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIOLACEIN;

BIOSENSOR; BUCHNERA; CELL SELECTION; CLONE; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; DRUG STRUCTURE; ECOLOGY; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENOMICS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MICROBIAL IDENTIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROGENOMICS; MICROORGANISM; MICROSCOPE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; SEA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SYMBIOSIS;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; GENETICS, MICROBIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 10344227692     PISSN: 10922172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MMBR.68.4.669-685.2004     Document Type: Review

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