Toward quantitative understanding on microbial community structure and functioning: A modeling-centered approach using degradation of marine oil spills as example

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue MAR, 2014, Pages

  Röling, Wilfred F M ^a   Van Bodegom, Peter M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bottom up modeling; Flux balance analysis; Marine oil spills; Metagenomics; Microbial communities; Systems biology

Indexed keywords

POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

ALCANIVORAX; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; BIOREMEDIATION; DATA BASE; ECOSYSTEM; METABOLIC FLUX ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MICROBIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; NONHUMAN; OIL SPILL; PARAMETERS;

EID: 84897938434     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00125     Document Type: Article

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