Competitive PCR-DGGE analysis of bacterial mixturesan internal standard and an appraisal of template enumeration accuracy

Journal of Microbiological Methods

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 111-123

  Brüggemann, Julia ^a   Stephen, John R ^a   Chang, Yun Juan ^a,b   Macnaughton, Sarah J ^a   Kowalchuk, George A ^c   Kline, Elizabeth ^a   White, David C ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b Microbial Insights Incorporated   (United States)

^c NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^d OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

16S rDNA; Competition; Culture independent enumeration; DGGE

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CELL CULTURE; DESULFOVIBRIO VULGARIS; DNA TEMPLATE; ECOLOGY; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE FUSION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHEWANELLA PUTREFACIENS; SPHINGOMONAS; STANDARD; SYMBIOSIS; TECHNIQUE; WAUTERSIA EUTROPHA;

ALCALIGENES; DESULFOVIBRIO VULGARIS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEOBACTERIA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEWANELLA PUTREFACIENS;

ANOMONEURA; ANOMONEURA MORI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROTEOBACTERIA; PSYLLIDAE; UNCULTURED GAMMA PROTEOBACTERIUM;

EID: 0343416244     PISSN: 01677012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7012(99)00126-8     Document Type: Article

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