Formation of pseudo-terminal restriction fragments, a PCR-related bias affecting terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of microbial community structure

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 2555-2562

  Egert, Markus ^a   Friedrich, Michael W ^a  

^a M P Inst for Terres Microbiology   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ENZYMES; GENES; RNA;

MOLECULAR MICROBIAL ECOLOGY;

MICROBIOLOGY;

DNA; PROTEIN; PROTEIN ALUI; PROTEIN MSPI; RIBOSOME RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AMPLICON; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BEETLE; DNA EXTRACTION; FLUORESCENCE; INTESTINE; LARVA; MICROFLORA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RESTRICTION SITE;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; BEETLES; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETICS, MICROBIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COLEOPTERA; PHASEOLUS (ANGIOSPERM); VIGNA RADIATA VAR. RADIATA;

EID: 0038221194     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.5.2555-2562.2003     Document Type: Article

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