Applications of nucleic acid microarrays in soil microbial ecology

Molecular Approaches to Soil, Rhizosphere and Plant Microorganism Analysis

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 18-41

  Loy, Alexander ^a   Taylor, Michael W ^a   Bodrossy, Levente ^b   Wagner, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b ARC SEIBERSDORF RESEARCH GMBH   (Austria)

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