Use of length heterogeneity PCR and fatty acid methyl ester profiles to characterize microbial communities in soil

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1668-1675

  Ritchie, Nancy J ^a   Schutter, Mary E ^a   Dick, Richard P ^a   Myrold, David D ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; FATTY ACID ESTER;

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FATTY ACID; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAND USE; LIPID ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SOIL MICROFLORA;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; FATTY ACIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTERIODES; BACTEROIDES; CYTOPHAGA; FLEXIBACTER; LOLIUM PERENNE; POSIBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 0034126356     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.4.1668-1675.2000     Document Type: Article

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