Opening the black box of soil microbial diversity

Applied Soil Ecology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 109-122

  Tiedje, James M ^a   Asuming Brempong, Stella ^a   Nüsslein, Klaus ^a   Marsh, Terry L ^a   Flynn, Shannon J ^a  

^a Center for Microbial Ecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Amplified ribosomal DNA restriction analysis (ARDRA); Molecular ecology; Soil DNA; SSU rRNA; Terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T RFLP)

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MICROBIAL FUNCTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RIBOSOMAL RNA; SOIL;

EID: 0032832253     PISSN: 09291393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0929-1393(99)00026-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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