Laboratory Cultivation of Widespread and Previously Uncultured Soil Bacteria

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 7210-7215

  Joseph, Shayne J ^a   Hugenholtz, Philip ^b   Sangwan, Parveen ^a   Osborne, Catherine A ^a   Janssen, Peter H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CELL CULTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; GROWTH KINETICS; SOILS;

PHYLOGENY; SOIL BACTERIA;

BACTERIA;

RNA 16S; RIBOSOME DNA;

BACTERIUM; PHYLOGENETICS; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

ACIDIMICROBIDAE; ACIDOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLUM; RNA GENE; RUBROBACTERIDAE; SOIL MICROFLORA; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VERRUCOMICROBIA; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

ACIDIMICROBIDAE; ACIDOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIDAE; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CELLULAR ORGANISMS; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GEMMATIMONADETES; NEGIBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; RUBROBACTERIDAE; VERRUCOMICROBIA; VERRUCOMICROBIA SUBDIVISION 3; VERRUCOMICROBIACEAE;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, RRNA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 2142687113     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.12.7210-7215.2003     Document Type: Article

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