Quantifying the accessibility of the metagenome by random expression cloning techniques

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 879-886

  Gabor, Esther M ^a   Alkema, Wynand B L ^b   Janssen, Dick B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; GENOMICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BACTERIA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LIBRARY; GENES; GENOMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 4344598273     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2004.00640.x     Document Type: Article

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