Illuminating the detection chain of bacterial bioreporters

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1005-1020

  Van Der Meer, Jan Roelof ^a   Tropel, David ^b   Jaspers, Marco ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MUTATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REPORTER GENE; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MUTATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 4644363538     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2004.00655.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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