Application of nested polymerase chain reaction for the detection of as yet uncultured organisms of the class Actinobacteria in environmental samples

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 137-143

  Rheims, Holger ^a   Stackebrandt, Erko ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE DSMZ GERMAN COLLECTION OF MICROORGANISMS AND CELL CULTURES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); UNCULTURED ORGANISM;

BACTERIAL DNA; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE DRAIII; TYPE II SITE SPECIFIC DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; TREE;

ACTINOBACTERIA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE LIBRARY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TREES;

EID: 0033108193     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-2920.1999.00013.x     Document Type: Article

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