Combined molecular ecological and confocal laser scanning microscopic analysis of peat bog methanogen populations

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 193, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 275-281

  Upton, M ^a   Hill, B ^b   Edwards, C ^a   Saunders, J R ^a   Ritchie, D A ^a   Lloyd, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Confocal laser scanning microscopy; Methanogen; Oligonucleotide probing; Peat; Polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; METHANOBACTERIALES; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; EURYARCHAEOTA; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; OXIDOREDUCTASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0034672284     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(00)00496-1     Document Type: Article

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