Metabolic interactions in microbial communities: Untangling the Gordian knot

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 27, Issue , 2015, Pages 37-44

  Ponomarova, Olga ^a   Patil, Kiran Raosaheb ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPUTER MODEL; DIFFUSION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC MANIPULATION; ISOTOPE LABELING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLOMICS; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; ARCHAEON; BACTERIUM; ECOSYSTEM; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; METABOLOMICS; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS;

EID: 84939233322     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: 18790364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2015.06.014     Document Type: Review

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