Metagenomics: Access to Unculturable Microbes in the Environment

Microbes and Environments

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 201-215

  Kimura, Nobutada ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

metagenomics; microbial community; unculturable microbes

Indexed keywords

EID: 48249089994     PISSN: 13426311     EISSN: 13474405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.21.201     Document Type: Article

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