CONTENTS 



Page 



Highlights 205 



Overview 205 



What Is Microbial Diversity? 205 



Status of Microbial Diversity Onsite 207 



Microbial Diversity Offsite 208 



Maintenance Technologies 208 



Isolation and Sampling 208 



Microbial Identification 209 



Storage of Micro-Organisms 209 



Needs and Opportunities 212 



Catalog Collections 212 



Develop Methods for Isolation and Culture 213 



Study of Microbial Ecology 213 



Chapter 8 References 214 



Table 



Table No. Page 



8-1. Summary of the Characteristics, Problems, and Uses of 



Micro-Organisms 207 



Bex 



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8-A. The Importance of Microbial Diversity 206 



