Characterization of the dominant and rare members of a young Hawaiian soil bacterial community with small-subunit ribosomal DNA amplified from DNA fractionated on the basis of its guanine and cytosine composition

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1283-1289

  Nüsslein, Klaus ^a   Tiedje, James M ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; RIBOSOMAL DNA; SOIL BACTERIA;

ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOMONAS; RHIZOBIUM; RHODOSPIRILLUM; SOIL MICROFLORA; UNITED STATES;

HAWAII; USA;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGRONACTERIUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM; HAWAIIA; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS; RHIZOBIUM; RHODOSPIRILLUM;

EID: 0342868796     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.4.1283-1289.1998     Document Type: Article

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