Microdroplet-enabled highly parallel co-cultivation of microbial communities

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Park, Jihyang ^a   Kerner, Alissa ^a   Burns, Mark A ^a   Lin, Xiaoxia Nina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OIL;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; COCULTURE; CONTINUOUS CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROENCAPSULATION; MICROFLUIDICS; MICROTECHNOLOGY; MOLECULAR SIZE; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL PHASE; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SYMBIONT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOTA; CHEMISTRY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DRUG FORMULATION; ELECTRONICS; EVALUATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM; VALIDATION STUDY;

BIOTA; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; CULTURE MEDIA; DRUG COMPOUNDING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; MINIATURIZATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 79952164230     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017019     Document Type: Article

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