Cultivating yet-to-be cultivated microbes: The challenge continues

Microbes and Environments

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 163-165

  Narihiro, Takashi ^a,b   Kamagata, Yoichi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ARCHAEON; BACTERIUM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METAGENOMICS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; METAGENOMICS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 84878481342     PISSN: 13426311     EISSN: 13474405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.ME2802rh     Document Type: Editorial

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