European Culture Collections' Organisation

The European Culture Collections' Organisation (ECCO) is a European non-profit organisation which promotes the collaboration and exchange of ideas and information on all aspects of culture collection activity. Corporate members of ECCO are microbial resource centres of countries with microbiological societies affiliated to the Federation of the European Microbiological Societies (FEMS).

History

The organisation of the European Culture Collections' Organisation (ECCO) was established in 1981.

See also

• American Type Culture Collection (ATCC)
• World Federation for Culture Collections

Sources

• ECCO
• B. E. Kirsop, C. P. Kurtzman, T. Nakase, D. Yarrow, Living Resources for Biotechnology : Yeasts, 1988, p. 208
• D. L. Hawksworth, B. E. Kirsop, S. C. Jong, Filamentous Fungi (Living Resources for Biotechnology), 1988, pp. 182–183

External links

• ECCO