Synthetic microbial communities

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 72-77

  Großkopf, Tobias ^a   Soyer, Orkun S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULOSE;

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMMENSALISM; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMPETITION; COOPERATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESSENTIAL GENE; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COMMUNITY; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; REVIEW; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; THERMODYNAMICS; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION;

MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84896045978     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: 18790364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2014.02.002     Document Type: Review

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