Culturing marine bacteria - An essential prerequisite for biodiscovery: Minireview

Microbial Biotechnology

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 564-575

  Joint, Ian ^a   Mühling, Martin ^b   Querellou, Joël ^c  

^a PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^c Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIODIVERSITY; CELL ENCAPSULATION; DNA SEQUENCE; MARINE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; SHORT SURVEY;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BIODIVERSITY; SEAWATER;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 77955911147     PISSN: 17517907     EISSN: 17517915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-7915.2010.00188.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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