Using coculture to detect chemically mediated interspecies interactions

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 80, 2013, Pages

  Shank, Elizabeth Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacillus subtilis; Coculture; Fluorescent transcriptional reporters; Genes; High throughput screening assays; Issue 80; Microbial interactions; Microbiology; Reporter; Screen; Soil microbiology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887429619     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/50863     Document Type: Article

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