Understanding bias in microbial community analysis techniques due to rrn operon copy number heterogeneity

BioTechniques

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 790-802

  Crosby, Laurel D ^a,b   Criddle, Craig S ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROPHORESIS; MICROORGANISMS; RNA; THERMAL EFFECTS;

INTERGENIC SPACER ANALYSIS;

GENES;

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MICROFLORA; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; OPERON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 0037388225     PISSN: 07366205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2144/03344rr01     Document Type: Article

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