Molecular ecological analysis of the succession and diversity of sulfate-reducing bacteria in the mouse gastrointestinal tract

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 2166-2174

  Deplancke, B ^a   Hristova, K R ^a   Oakley, H A ^a   McCracken, V J ^a   Aminov, R ^a   Mackie, R I ^a   Gasklns, H R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR ECOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUCCESSION; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIUM;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; DNA DETERMINATION; DOT HYBRIDIZATION; ECOLOGY; INTESTINE FLORA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; RNA ANALYSIS;

AGING; ANIMALS; COLON; DESULFOVIBRIO; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GASTRIC MUCOSA; GASTROINTESTINAL CONTENTS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; INTESTINE, SMALL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SULFUR-REDUCING BACTERIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DESULFOTOMACULUM; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0034021744     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.5.2166-2174.2000     Document Type: Article

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