The importance of sample archiving in microbial ecology

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 789-790

  Cary, S Craig ^a   Fierer, Noah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANTARCTICA; CLIMATE CHANGE; DNA EXTRACTION; ECOLOGY; LOW TEMPERATURE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SOIL MICROFLORA; STORAGE TEMPERATURE; ANIMAL; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; RESEARCH; STANDARDS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL SPECIMEN BANKS; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; RESEARCH; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 84911448212     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro3382     Document Type: Note

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