Cultivating previously uncultured soil bacteria using a soil substrate membrane system

Nature Protocols

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1261-1269

  Ferrari, Belinda C ^a   Winsley, Tristrom ^a   Gillings, Michael ^b   Binnerup, Svend ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYCARBONATE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; COLONY FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INCUBATION TIME; MOLECULAR TYPING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SOIL MICROFLORA; SPECIES CULTIVATION;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 50249237865     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2008.102     Document Type: Article

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