Cloning the soil metagenome: A strategy for accessing the genetic and functional diversity of uncultured microorganisms

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 2541-2547

  Rondon, Michelle R ^a,g   August, Paul R ^b   Bettermann, Alan D ^a   Brady, Sean F ^c   Grossman, Trudy H ^b,d   Liles, Mark R ^a   Loiacono, Kara A ^b   Lynch, Berkley A ^b,e   MacNeil, Ian A ^b   Minor, Charles ^b   Tiong, Choi Lai ^b   Gilman, Michael ^b,f   Osburne, Marcia S ^b   Clardy, Jon ^c   Handelsman, Jo ^a   Goodman, Robert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Ariad Pharmaceutical   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^d VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS   (United States)

^e UCB PHARMA   (Belgium)

^f BIOGEN   (United States)

^g OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; CHROMOSOME; DNA LIBRARY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMYLASES; BACTERIA; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; GENES, RRNA; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC LIBRARY; HEMOLYSIS; LIPASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

ACIDOBACTERIUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROBIOTA; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA; SPHINGOBACTERIALES;

EID: 18844481269     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.6.2541-2547.2000     Document Type: Article

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