Contemporary molecular tools in microbial ecology and their application to advancing biotechnology.

doi:10.1016/j.biotechadv.2015.09.005

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Contemporary molecular tools in microbial ecology and their application to advancing biotechnology.

Biotechnology advances - 1 Dec 2015

Rashid Mamoon, Stingl Ulrich

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Novel methods in microbial ecology are revolutionizing our understanding of the structure and function of microbes in the environment, but concomitant advances in applications of these tools to biotechnology are mostly lagging behind. After more than a century of efforts to improve microbial cult...

Topics

Bacteria
Biotechnology
Genetic Variation
High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing
Metagenome
Single-Cell Analysis

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