PCR fingerprinting with a consensus tRNA primer enables strain identification of Mortierella alpina

Mycological Research

Volumn 104, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 794-799

  Carter, A T ^a   Mackenzie, D A ^a   Pearson, B M ^a   Archer, D B ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IDENTIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMER DNA; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; REPETITIVE DNA; RETROPOSON; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; TRANSFER RNA;

MORTIERELLA ALPINA; MYXOGASTRIA;

EID: 0033898311     PISSN: 09537562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0953756299002105     Document Type: Article

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