Development and Application of a Most-Probable-Number-PCR Assay to Quantify Flagellate Populations in Soil Samples

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1613-1618

  Fredslund, Line ^a,b   Ekelund, Flemming ^b   Jacobsen, Carsten Suhr ^a   Johnsen, Kaare ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; PROTOZOAL DNA; RNA 18S;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; CULTURE MEDIUM; EVALUATION; FLAGELLATE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; RNA GENE; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT;

ANIMALS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENES, RRNA; MASTIGOPHORA; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EID: 0035318623     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.4.1613-1618.2001     Document Type: Article

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