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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Schoenborn, L
• Yates, P.S
• Grinton, B.E
• Hugenholtz, P
• Janssen, P.H

Titel

Liquid serial dilution is inferior to solid media for isolation of cultures representative of the phylum-level diversity of soil bacteria

Ist Teil von

• Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2004-07, Vol.70 (7), p.4363-4366

Ort / Verlag

Washington, DC: American Society for Microbiology

Erscheinungsjahr

2004

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Representatives of only four well-characterized bacterial phyla were isolated from a pasture soil by using liquid serial dilution culture. In contrast, members of Acidobacteria, Verrucomicrobia, and Gemmatimonadetes and of other poorly represented bacterial lineages were isolated in earlier experiments with solidified versions of the same media. We conclude that, contrary to expectation, liquid serial dilution culture is inferior to culturing on solid media for isolating representatives of many bacterial phyla from soil.