Island size and bacterial diversity in an archipelago of engineering machines

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1220-1226

  Van Der Gast, Christopher J ^a   Lilley, Andrew K ^a   Ager, Duane ^a   Thompson, Ian P ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOREACTOR; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; ELECTROPHORESIS; ENGINEERING; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; INSTRUMENTATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY;

BACTERIA; BIOREACTORS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; ELECTROPHORESIS; ENGINEERING; GENOTYPE; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 22744439617     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2005.00802.x     Document Type: Article

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