Specific detection of different phylogenetic groups of chemocline bacteria based on PCR and denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis of 16S rRNA gene fragments

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 172, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 83-94

  Overmann, Jörg ^a   Coolen, Marco J L ^a   Tuschak, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Proteobacteria; Bacteria; Chemocline; Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis; Green sulfur; Group specific PCR; Microbial diversity; Purple sulfur bacteria

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; DESULFOVIBRIO; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DESULFOVIBRIO; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FRESH WATER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 0032809368     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002030050744     Document Type: Article

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