Fingerprinting of cyanobacteria based on PCR with primers derived from short and long tandemly repeated repetitive sequences

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 265-272

  Rasmussen, Ulla ^a,b   Svenning, Mette M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; REPETITIVE DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA FINGERPRINTING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TANDEM REPEAT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; GUNNERA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; NEGIBACTERIA; NOSTOC;

EID: 0031965094     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.1.265-272.1998     Document Type: Article

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