Genetic basis of enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus (ERIC)- PCR fingerprint pattern in sinorhizobium meliloti and identification of S. meliloti employing PCR primers derived from an ERIC-PCR fragment

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 172, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 22-30

  Niemann, Stefan ^a,b   Dammann Kalinowski, Tanja ^a   Nagel, Anja ^a   Pühler, Alfred ^a   Selbitschka, Werner ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b RESEARCH CENTER BORSTEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

ERIC elements; Natural populations; Polymerase chain reaction; Repetitive sequences; Rhizobium meliloti; Sinorhizobium medicae; Symbiotic nitrogen fixation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROBACTER; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

ANIMALIA; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA; NEGIBACTERIA; RHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MEDICAE; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 0032983866     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002030050735     Document Type: Article

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