Quantification of 16S rRNAs in complex bacterial communities by multiple competitive reverse transcription-PCR in temperature gradient gel electrophoresis fingerprints

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 4581-4587

  Felske, Andreas ^a,b   Akkermans, Antoon D L ^b   De Vos, Willem M ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE RECURSOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA DE SEVILLA   (Spain)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

BACTERIUM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

ALCALIGENES FAECALIS; ARTHROBACTER; ARTICLE; AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE; BACILLUS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA FINGERPRINTING; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SOIL MICROFLORA; STREPTOMYCES GRISEUS;

ALCALIGENES FAECALIS; ARTHROBACTER; AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; RHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; STREPTOMYCES GRISEUS;

EID: 0031732597     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.11.4581-4587.1998     Document Type: Article

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