Investment into the future of microbial resources: Culture collection funding models and BRC business plans for Biological Resource Centres

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Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-12

  Smith, David ^a   McCluskey, Kevin ^b   Stackebrandt, Erko ^c  

^a CABI   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE DSMZ GERMAN COLLECTION OF MICROORGANISMS AND CELL CULTURES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bioeconomy; Biological resource centres; Global biological resource centres; Microbial resource centres; MIRRI; Networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897802486     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21931801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2193-1801-3-81     Document Type: Article

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