Microbial community analyses using a simple, rapid detection method for DNA fingerprints with a fluorescence scanner

Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 500-503

  Ikeda, Seishi ^a   Roberts, David Mc L ^b   Watanabe, Kazuo N ^a   Ytow, Nozomi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fluorescence detection; Ribosomal intergenic spacer analysis (RISA); Soil; Terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T RFLP)

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; FLUORESCENCE; MICROORGANISMS;

DNA FINGERPRINTS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY ANALYSIS; PCR PRODUCTS; POLYMORPHISM; RIBOSOMAL INTERGENIC SPACER ANALYSIS;

DNA;

DNA 16S; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE; FLUOROSCOPY; MICROBIAL IDENTIFICATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RIBOSOMAL INTERGENIC SPACER ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL MICROFLORA; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 12444295507     PISSN: 13891723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1389-1723(05)00321-X     Document Type: Article

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