Soil fungal community structure in a temperate upland grassland soil

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 105-114

  Brodie, Eoin ^a   Edwards, Suzanne ^a   Clipson, Nicholas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis; DNA; Ergosterol; Fungus; Polymerase chain reaction; Terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism; Upland grassland

Indexed keywords

ERGOSTEROL; NUCLEIC ACID;

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FUNGUS; GRASSLAND SOIL; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY;

AGRICULTURE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CLIMATE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FUNGAL BIOMASS; FUNGUS; GRASSLAND; MEASUREMENT; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RIBOTYPING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

FUNGI;

EID: 0037770278     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-6496(03)00126-0     Document Type: Article

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