Detection and Enumeration of Methanotrophs in Acidic Sphagnum Peat by 16S rRNA Fluorescence in Situ Hybridization, Including the Use of Newly Developed Oligonucleotide Probes for Methylocella palustris

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 4850-4857

  Dedysh, Svetlana N ^a,b   Derakshani, Manigee ^b   Liesack, Werner ^b  

^a RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHANE; RNA 16S;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BRYOPSIDA; CLASSIFICATION; EVALUATION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; METHYLOCOCCACEAE; MICROBIOLOGY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; PH; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BRYOPSIDA; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; METHANE; METHYLOCOCCACEAE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0035489394     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.10.4850-4857.2001     Document Type: Article

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