A high throughput screen for biomining cellulase activity from metagenomic libraries

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 48, 2010, Pages

  Mewis, Keith ^a   Taupp, Marcus ^a   Hallam, Steven J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cellulase; Cellulose; DNP cellobioside; Environmental genomics; Functional metagenomics; Issue 48; Metagenome; Metagenomics; Microbiology

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958016761     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/2461     Document Type: Article

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