Isolation and identification of methanogen-specific DNA from blanket bog peat by PCR amplification and sequence analysis

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 668-675

  Hales, Barbara A ^a   Edwards, Clive ^a   Ritchie, Donald A ^a   Hall, Grahame ^b   Pickup, Roger W ^b   Saunders, Jon R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; MESNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; MARKER GENE; METHANOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOIL MICROFLORA;

EID: 0030032633     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.2.668-675.1996     Document Type: Article

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