Articles | Volume 3, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/dwes-3-91-2010
https://doi.org/10.5194/dwes-3-91-2010
12 Jul 2010
 | 12 Jul 2010

MUWS (Microbiology in Urban Water Systems) – an interdisciplinary approach to study microbial communities in urban water systems

P. Deines, R. Sekar, H. S. Jensen, S. Tait, J. B. Boxall, A. M. Osborn, and C. A. Biggs

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