Microbial scout hypothesis and microbial discovery

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 3229-3233

  Buerger, S ^a   Spoering, A ^b   Gavrish, E ^a   Leslin, C ^a   Ling, L ^b   Epstein, S S ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NovoBiotic Pharmaceuticals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONY COUNTS; CULTURE COLLECTION; LONG-TERM INCUBATION; MICROBIAL ISOLATES; RARE SPECIES; SOIL BACTERIUM; TEMPORAL PATTERN;

CELL CULTURE; CULTIVATION; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EXPERIMENTS;

BACTERIUM; CULTIVATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LONG-TERM CHANGE; NEW SPECIES; PHYLOGENETICS; PROBABILITY; RARE SPECIES; SOIL MICROORGANISM; STOCHASTICITY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METAGENOME; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TIME;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BIODIVERSITY; HUMANS; METAGENOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TIME FACTORS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84861117173     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.07308-11     Document Type: Article

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