Quantitative detection of methanotrophs in soil by novel pmoA-targeted real-time PCR Assays

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 2423-2429

  Kolb, Steffen ^a   Knief, Claudia ^a   Stubner, Stephan ^a   Conrad, Ralf ^a  

^a M P Inst Terrestrische Mikrobiol   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CELLS; DNA; OXIDATION; SOILS;

FOREST CLONES;

MICROBIOLOGY;

PROTEIN; PROTEIN PMOA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DETECTION METHOD; METHANOTROPHY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FOREST; GENETIC STRAIN; LYSIS; METHANOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; METHYLOBACTERIUM; METHYLOCOCCUS CAPSULATUS; METHYLOSINUS TRICHOSPORIUM; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN TARGETING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RICE; SOIL;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BASE SEQUENCE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; GENES, BACTERIAL; METHYLOCOCCACEAE; METHYLOCOCCUS CAPSULATUS; METHYLOSINUS TRICHOSPORIUM; ORYZA SATIVA; OXYGENASES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); METHYLOBACTER; METHYLOBACTERIUM; METHYLOCAPSA; METHYLOCOCCUS; METHYLOCOCCUS CAPSULATUS; METHYLOCYSTACEAE; METHYLOMICROBIUM ALBUM; METHYLOSARCINA; METHYLOSINUS; METHYLOSINUS TRICHOSPORIUM; NEGIBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; TRICHOSPORIUM;

EID: 0038221311     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.5.2423-2429.2003     Document Type: Article

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