Will we ever understand? The undescribable diversity of the prokaryotes

Acta Microbiologica et Immunologica Hungarica

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 449-462

  Stackebrandt, E ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE DSMZ GERMAN COLLECTION OF MICROORGANISMS AND CELL CULTURES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Conexibacteraceae; Metabolic pathways; Solirubrobacteraceae; Species definition; Thermoleophilaceae; Uncultured organisms

Indexed keywords

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIUM; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL COUNT; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA MICROARRAY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GRAM STAINING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; OXIDATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PROKARYOTE; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW; THERMODYNAMICS;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA; UNCULTURED ORGANISM; UNCULTURED PROKARYOTE;

EID: 11244281367     PISSN: 12178950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/AMicr.51.2004.4.5     Document Type: Review

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