Improved cultivation and metagenomics as new tools for bioprospecting in cold environments

Extremophiles

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 17-29

  Vester, Jan Kjølhede ^a   Glaring, Mikkel Andreas ^a   Stougaard, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bioprospecting; Cold active; Cultivation; Functional metagenomics; Metagenome; Multiple displacement amplification

Indexed keywords

DNA; GEL; SOIL;

BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; COLD; DIFFUSION; GEL; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PH; SEDIMENT; SOIL;

COLD TEMPERATURE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DIFFUSION; DNA; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; GELS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; SOIL;

EID: 84922076038     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: 14334909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00792-014-0704-3     Document Type: Review

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