Current and future resources for functional metagenomics

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue OCT, 2015, Pages

  Lam, Kathy N ^a   Cheng, Jiujun ^a   Engel, Katja ^a   Neufeld, Josh D ^a   Charles, Trevor C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cloning bias; Cosmid library; Fosmid library; Functional metagenomics; Library bias; Metagenomic library; PCC1FOS; RK2

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; CLONING VECTOR; DNA EXTRACTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; FUNCTIONAL METAGENOMICS; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84946820134     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.01196     Document Type: Article

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