The microbial diversity of Polar environments is a fertile ground for bioprospecting

Marine Genomics

Volumn 8, Issue , 2012, Pages 15-22

  de Pascale, Donatella ^a   De Santi, Concetta ^a   Fu, Juan ^b   Landfald, Bjarne ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PROTEIN BIOCHEMISTRY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bioprospecting; Metagenomics; Polar; Prokaryotic

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCT;

ADAPTATION; ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METAGENOMICS; PHYLOGENY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; ARCTIC REGIONS; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL AGENTS; GENETIC VARIATION; METAGENOMICS; PHYLOGENY;

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 84870346434     PISSN: 18747787     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margen.2012.04.004     Document Type: Article

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