Application of Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis (DGGE) to Study the Diversity of Marine Picoeukaryotic Assemblages and Comparison of DGGE with Other Molecular Techniques

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 2942-2951

  Díez, Beatriz ^a   Pedrós Alió, Carlos ^a   Marsh, Terence L ^b   Massana, Ramon ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b Michigan State University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 18S; SEA WATER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; PARASITOLOGY; PLANKTON; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; PLANKTON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0035403492     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.7.2942-2951.2001     Document Type: Article

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