Metagenomics - The key to the uncultured microbes

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 492-498

  Streit, Wolfgang R ^a,b   Schmitz, Ruth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ASCORBIC ACID; POLYKETIDE;

BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOSYNTHESIS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA ISOLATION; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOLOGY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MICROFLORA; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PURIFICATION; REVIEW; SCREENING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 4644354371     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2004.08.002     Document Type: Review

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