Metagenomics insights into food fermentations

Microbial Biotechnology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 91-102

  De Filippis, Francesca ^a   Parente, Eugenio ^b   Ercolini, Danilo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; FERMENTATION; GENETIC RESOURCE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; SAFETY; BIOLOGY; FOOD CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; FERMENTATION; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA;

EID: 84990855887     PISSN: 17517907     EISSN: 17517915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1751-7915.12421     Document Type: Review

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