High-Resolution Differentiation of Cyanobacteria by Using rRNA-Internal Transcribed Spacer Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 6634-6643

  Janse, Ingmar ^a   Meima, Marion ^a   Kardinaal, W Edwin A ^b   Zwart, Gabriel ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; ELECTROPHORESIS; GELS; LAKES; MICROBIOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; RNA;

CYANOBACTERIAS;

BACTERIA;

DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; CYANOBACTERIUM; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DIFFERENTIATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CYANOBACTERIA; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FRESH WATER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CYANOBACTERIA; MICROCYSTIS;

EID: 0242405735     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.11.6634-6643.2003     Document Type: Article

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