Overview: Offers readily reproducible, step-by-step laboratory methods.Provides helpful tips and tricks to complement the protocols.Includes troubleshooting advice.Features practical laboratory guidelines to pr.This Volume describes methods for investigating microbes in their natural environment and how to obtain representative samples and preserve them for subsequent analyses. Chapters are arranged according to the environments under investigation, which include: oil reservoirs, fracking fluids, aquifers, coal beds, oil sands and their tailing ponds, lakes, rivers, leaves, polar seas and ice,
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