Characterisation of symbionts of entomopathogenic nematodes by universally primed-PCR (UP-PCR) and UP-PCR product cross-hybridisation

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 215, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 63-68

  Nielsen, O ^a   Lubeck P S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Entomopathogenic nematodes; Photorhabdus; Ribotyping; Universally primed PCR; Universally primed PCR product cross hybridisation; Xenorhabdus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS HYBRIDIZATION; ENTOMOPATHOGENY; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; PHOTORHABDUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYMBIONT; XENORHABDUS;

ANIMALS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; NEMATODA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PHOTORHABDUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SYMBIOSIS; XENORHABDUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HETERORHABDITIS; NEMATODA; PHOTORHABDUS; PHOTORHABDUS TEMPERATA; STEINERNEMA; STEINERNEMA FELTIAE; XENORHABDUS; XENORHABDUS BOVIENII;

EID: 0037167488     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(02)00914-X     Document Type: Article

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