Diversification and focusing: Strategies of microbial culture collections

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 283-287

  Stackebrandt, Erko ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE DSMZ GERMAN COLLECTION OF MICROORGANISMS AND CELL CULTURES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIODIVERSITY; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOSAFETY; EUROPEAN UNION; KNOWLEDGE BASE; MICROBIAL CULTURE COLLECTION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; QUALITY CONTROL; SAMPLING; STRATEGIC PLANNING; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL SPECIMEN BANKS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; STAFF DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 77954141983     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2010.05.001     Document Type: Article

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