New tools for discovering and characterizing microbial diversity

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 544-549

  Cardenas, Erick ^a   Tiedje, James M ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLES; FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITIES; GENETIC POTENTIALS; ISOLATION TECHNIQUES; METAGENOMICS; METHANOGENIC ARCHAEA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MICROBIAL DIVERSITIES; NEW TOOLS; RESEARCH CENTERS;

GENES;

BACTERIAL ENZYME; CHLOROBENZENE; DNA; MESSENGER RNA; ORGANIC MATTER; RIBOSOME RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ACIDOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA; ALGA; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOTECHNOLOGY; DATA BASE; DNA VECTOR; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENOMICS; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; KUENENIA STUTTGARTIENSIS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METAGENOMICS; METAPROTEOMICS; METATRANSCRIPTOMICS; METHANOGENIC ARCHAEON; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MICROBIAL IDENTIFICATION; MICROFLUIDICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR PROBE; NANO SECONDARY ION MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; OP10; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOBACTERIA; PROTEOMICS; PYROSEQUENCING; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; STABLE ISOTOPE PROBING; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; VERRUCOMICROBIA;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; MICROFLUIDICS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOMICS; RNA, MESSENGER; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ACIDOBACTERIA; VERRUCOMICROBIA;

EID: 57049171854     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2008.10.010     Document Type: Review

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