Stable isotope probing - Linking microbial identify to function

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 499-504

  Dumont, Marc G ^a   Murrell, J Colin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CARBON 13; DNA; GENOMIC DNA; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEIC ACID; RIBOSOME RNA; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA MICROARRAY; ISOTOPE LABELING; METHODOLOGY; METHYLOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MICROBIAL IDENTIFICATION; MICROORGANISM; MOLECULAR PROBE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; PLANT MICROORGANISM INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION;

BACTERIA; CARBON ISOTOPES; DNA, BACTERIAL; ISOTOPE LABELING; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 19144372182     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1162     Document Type: Article

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