Measuring soil microbial community diversity using polar lipid fatty acid and denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis data

Journal of Microbiological Methods

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 235-248

  Hedrick, David B ^a   Peacock, Aaron ^b   Stephen, John R ^b,d   Macnaughton, Sarah J ^b,c   Brüggemann, Julia ^b,d   White, David C ^b,e  

^a Hedrick Services   (United States)

^b Center for Environmental Biotechnology   (United States)

^c Culham Science Centre   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^e OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

16s rDNA; Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis; Diversity; Polar lipid fatty acids; Shannon's index; Simpson's index

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA DETERMINATION; LIPID ANALYSIS; LIPID COMPOSITION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL MICROFLORA; SPECIES;

BACTERIA; BIOMASS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FATTY ACIDS; LIPIDS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0033848231     PISSN: 01677012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7012(00)00157-3     Document Type: Article

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