Kinetic bias in estimates of coastal picoplankton community structure obtained by measurements of small-subunit rRNA gene PCR amplicon length heterogeneity

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 4522-4529

  Suzuki, Marcelino ^a,b   Rappé, Michael S ^a,c   Giovannoni, Stephen J ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c STATION BIOLOGIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; BACTERIOPLANKTON; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; KINETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAMPLING BIAS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANKTON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEASHORE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0031790538     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.11.4522-4529.1998     Document Type: Article

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