To BAC or not to BAC: Marine ecogenomics

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 187-190

  Béjà, Oded ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

AAnP; aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria; BAC; bacterial artificial chromosome; F1 origin based cosmid vector; fosmid; ribosomal RNA; rRNA

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIOPLANKTON; GENOME; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROORGANISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEA POLLUTION;

CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, MICROBIAL; GENOME; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS); WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PHOTOBACTERIA;

EID: 2942541402     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2004.03.005     Document Type: Review

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