Metagenomics: Advances in ecology and biotechnology

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 247, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 105-111

  Steele, Helen L ^a   Streit, Wolfgang R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antibiotic; Biocatalyst; Metabolite; Metagenomic; Prokaryotic ecology; Uncultivated organisms

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA;

ASSAY; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BACTERIUM; BIOCATALYST; BIOENGINEERING; BIOFILM; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CLONE; DNA DETERMINATION; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; HOST; INFORMATION; METABOLISM; METAGENOMICS; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOTROPISM; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; RNA ANALYSIS; SCIENCE; SCREENING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHORT SURVEY; SPECIES; TECHNIQUE;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ECOLOGY; GENOMICS; PROKARYOTIC CELLS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

EID: 20444419322     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsle.2005.05.011     Document Type: Short Survey

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