New opportunities revealed by biotechnological explorations of extremophiles

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 250-255

  Podar, Mircea ^a   Reysenbach, Anna Louise ^b  

^a Metagenomica   (United States)

^b PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; GENETIC ENGINEERING;

EXTREMOPHILES; GENOME SEQUENCING; INNOVATIVE CULTURING; LABORATORY CULTURE;

GENES;

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOMICS; LABORATORY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; GENETICS, MICROBIAL;

EID: 33744928103     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2006.05.002     Document Type: Review

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