Application of a newly developed ARB software-integrated tool for in silico terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis reveals the dominance of a novel pmoA cluster in a forest soil

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1671-1673

  Ricke, Peter ^a   Kolb, Steffen ^a   Braker, Gesche ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FORESTRY; GENES; RNA;

FROEST SOILS; FUNCTIONAL GENE SEQUENCES; POLYMORPHISM;

SOILS;

GENE PRODUCT; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

DETECTION METHOD; SOFTWARE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FOREST SOIL; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; METHANOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PMOA GENE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RNA GENE; SOIL MICROFLORA;

BACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; GENES, BACTERIAL; GERMANY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SOFTWARE; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA; COMPUTER PROGRAMS; FORESTRY; GENES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; SOIL;

EID: 15444366206     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.3.1671-1673.2005     Document Type: Article

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