Laboratory procedures to generate viral metagenomes

Nature Protocols

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 470-483

  Thurber, Rebecca V ^a,b   Haynes, Matthew ^a   Breitbart, Mya ^c   Wegley, Linda ^a   Rohwer, Forest ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; GENE LIBRARY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY TEST; METAGENOMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS PARTICLE;

DNA VIRUSES; GENOME, VIRAL; GENOMIC LIBRARY; GENOMICS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION; VIRION; VIRUS CULTIVATION;

EID: 64749109065     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2009.10     Document Type: Article

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