Analysis of soil and bacterioplankton community DNA by melting profiles and reassociation kinetics

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 149, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 151-156

  Ritz, K ^a   Griffiths, B S ^a   Torsvik, V L ^b   Hendriksen, N B ^c  

^a Unit of Integrative Bioscience   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bacterioplankton; Community DNA; Community structure; Percent guanine+cytosine distribution; Reassociation kinetics; Soil community

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; GUANINE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; KINETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL MICROFLORA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0030967999     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00056-6     Document Type: Article

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