Accessing Uncultivated Microorganisms: From the Environment to Organisms and Genomes and Back

A complete overview of methods and approaches to studying microbial diversity.

• Emphasizes new innovative methods, addresses established methods, and provides “hands on” advice on how to isolate, cultivate, and study organisms.
• Covers the range of assessment possibilities from direct measurements of physical, chemical, and biological aspects of the environment to a wide array of molecular tools such as metagenomic and metaproteomic approaches.
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