Design and evaluation of group-specific oligonucleotide probes for quantitative analysis of intestinal ecosystems: Their application to assessment of equine colonic microflora

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 243-252

  Daly, Kristian ^a   Shirazi Beechey, Soraya P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Equine colonic microflora; Oligonucleotide probe; Quantification

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; NYLON; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

MICROBIAL COMMUNITY;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTEROIDES; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM COCCOIDES; COLON FLORA; DISSOCIATION; EUBACTERIUM RECTALE; FLEXIBACTERACEAE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HORSE; LACTOBACILLUS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; PHYLUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RNA EXTRACTION; RNA HYBRIDIZATION; SPIROCHAETA; STREPTOCOCCUS; TEMPERATURE;

BACILLI; BACILLUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; CLOSTRIDIACEAE; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM COCCOIDES; CYTOPHAGA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; EUBACTERIUM RECTALE; FIBROBACTER; FLEXIBACTER; LACTOBACILLUS; POSIBACTERIA; SPIROCHAETACEAE; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0037447855     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-6496(03)00032-1     Document Type: Article

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