Recent development in the methods of studying microbial diversity

Management of Microbial Resources in the Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 17-50

  Ansari, Mohd Ikram ^a   Malik, Abdul ^a  

^a ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

16S rRNA; Cultural methods; Microbial diversity; Molecular methods; Sequencing; Single cell analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84931369562     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-5931-2_2     Document Type: Chapter

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