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Build your own soil: exploring microfluidics to create microbial habitat structures

Soil is likely the most complex ecosystem on earth. Despite the global importance and extraordinary diversity of soils, they have been notoriously challenging to study. We show how pioneering microfluidic techniques provide new ways of studying soil microbial ecology by allowing simulation and manip...

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Autores principales: Aleklett, Kristin, Kiers, E Toby, Ohlsson, Pelle, Shimizu, Thomas S, Caldas, Victor EA, Hammer, Edith C
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5776464/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29135971
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2017.184
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author Aleklett, Kristin
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description Soil is likely the most complex ecosystem on earth. Despite the global importance and extraordinary diversity of soils, they have been notoriously challenging to study. We show how pioneering microfluidic techniques provide new ways of studying soil microbial ecology by allowing simulation and manipulation of chemical conditions and physical structures at the microscale in soil model habitats.
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spelling pubmed-57764642018-02-01 Build your own soil: exploring microfluidics to create microbial habitat structures Aleklett, Kristin Kiers, E Toby Ohlsson, Pelle Shimizu, Thomas S Caldas, Victor EA Hammer, Edith C ISME J Perspective Soil is likely the most complex ecosystem on earth. Despite the global importance and extraordinary diversity of soils, they have been notoriously challenging to study. We show how pioneering microfluidic techniques provide new ways of studying soil microbial ecology by allowing simulation and manipulation of chemical conditions and physical structures at the microscale in soil model habitats. Nature Publishing Group 2018-02 2017-11-14 /pmc/articles/PMC5776464/ /pubmed/29135971 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2017.184 Text en Copyright © 2018 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
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