Estimation of the abundance of an uncultured soil bacterial strain by a competitive quantitative PCR method

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 3787-3793

  Lee, Soo Youn ^a,c   Bollinger, John ^a   Bezdicek, David ^a   Ogram, Andrew ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHLAMYDIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA GENE; SOIL MICROFLORA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PLANCTOMYCES;

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; BACTERIA; ENUMERATION; PCR METHOD; SOIL;

USA, WASHINGTON;

EID: 0030438385     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.10.3787-3793.1996     Document Type: Article

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