Genetic diversity through the looking glass: Effect of enrichment bias

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1326-1331

  Dunbar, John ^a,b   White, Scott ^b   Forney, Larry ^a  

^a Michigan State University ^*  (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2,4 DICHLOROPHENOXYACETIC ACID; PALINDROMIC DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BURKHOLDERIA; CATABOLISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOIL MICROFLORA; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; WAUTERSIA EUTROPHA;

ALCALIGENES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA SP.; WAUTERSIA EUTROPHA;

EID: 0030958150     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.4.1326-1331.1997     Document Type: Article

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