Isolation of nifH and part of nifD by modified capture polymerase chain reaction from a natural population of the marine cyanobacterium Trichodesmium sp.

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 137-145

  Sroga, Grazyna E ^a,c   Landegren, Ulf ^a   Bergman, Birgitta ^b   Lagerström Fermér, Maria ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Capture polymerase chain reaction; Cyanobacteria; nifH; Nitrogenase; Trichodesmium sp.

Indexed keywords

NITROGENASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

EID: 0029926897     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1097(95)00490-4     Document Type: Article

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