Terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism data analysis for quantitative comparison of microbial communities

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 926-932

  Blackwood, Christopher B ^a,b   Marsh, Terry ^a   Kim, Sang Hoon ^a   Paul, Eldor A ^a,c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERMENTERS; FLUORESCENCE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MICROORGANISMS; SOIL TESTING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

GENETIC FINGERPRINTS;

MICROBIOLOGY;

DNA FINGERPRINTING; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY;

AGRONOMY; ALFALFA; ARTICLE; BIOREACTOR; CALCULATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; EUBACTERIUM; FLUORESCENCE; HYPOTHESIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SAMPLING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL MICROFLORA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TECHNIQUE; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA; BIOREACTORS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; MEDICAGO SATIVA; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; STATISTICS; ZEA MAYS;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MEDICAGO SATIVA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0037313539     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.2.926-932.2003     Document Type: Article

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