PCR-Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis Profiling of Inter- and Intraspecies 18S rRNA Gene Sequence Heterogeneity Is an Accurate and Sensitive Method to Assess Species Diversity of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi of the Genus Gigaspora

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1413-1424

  De Souza, Francisco A ^a,b   Kowalchuk, George A ^b   Leeflang, Paula ^c   Van Veen, Johannes A ^b   Smit, Eric ^c  

^a EMBRAPA AGROBIOLOGIA   (Brazil)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI;

CLONING; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; ELECTROPHORESIS; ENZYME KINETICS; GELS; RNA; SOILS;

FUNGI;

RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 18S;

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DISSECTION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; FUNGUS SPORE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GIGASPORA; MYCORRHIZA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCREENING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOIL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, FUNGAL; ECOSYSTEM; GENES, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCORRHIZAE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAE; CANDIDA; FUNGI; GIGASPORA; GIGASPORA ALBIDA; GIGASPORA CANDIDA; GIGASPORA DECIPIENS; GIGASPORA GIGANTEA; GIGASPORA MARGARITA; GIGASPORA RAMISPOROPHORA; GIGASPORA ROSEA; GIGASPORACEAE; MARGARITES; MYCORRHIZAE; MYXOGASTRIA;

EID: 1642267424     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.3.1413-1424.2004     Document Type: Article

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