High-throughput screening of filamentous fungi using nanoliter-range droplet-based microfluidics

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Beneyton, Thomas ^a   Wijaya, I Putu Mahendra ^a,b   Postros, Prexilia ^b   Najah, Majdi ^b   Leblond, Pascal ^b   Couvent, Angelique ^b   Mayot, Estelle ^b   Griffiths, Andrew D ^a   Drevelle, Antoine ^b  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b Centre de recherche et d'innovation sur le sport   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE;

ASPERGILLUS NIGER; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; MUTATION; PROCEDURES; SECRETION (PROCESS);

ALPHA-AMYLASES; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; MUTATION;

EID: 84974603244     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep27223     Document Type: Article

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