Medieval wall paintings - A habitat for archaea: Identification of archaea by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) of PCR-amplified gene fragments coding for 16S rRNA in a medieval wall painting

International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 85-92

  Rölleke, Sabine ^a   Witte, Angela ^a   Wanner, Gerhard ^b   Lubitz, Werner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodeterioration; DGGE analysis; Medieval wall paintings

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; ELECTROPHORESIS; EXTRACTION; GENES; RNA;

BIODETERIORATION; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS (DGGE);

BIODEGRADATION;

RNA 16S;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIODEGRADATION; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; NONHUMAN; PAINTING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0031776492     PISSN: 09648305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0964-8305(98)80011-5     Document Type: Article

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