Succession of microbial communities during hot composting as detected by PCR-single-strand-conformation polymorphism-based genetic profiles of small- subunit rRNA genes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 930-936

  Peters, Sabine ^a   Koschinsky, Stefanie ^a   Schwieger, Frank ^a   Tebbe, Christoph C ^a,b  

^a Institut fur Agrarokologie   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; EXONUCLEASE; RIBOSOME RNA;

COMPOSTING; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUCCESSION;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; CANDIDA; COMPOSTING; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDA; CANDIDA KRUSEI; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; ISSATCHENKIA ORIENTALIS; POSIBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 0034105806     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.3.930-936.2000     Document Type: Article

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