Contamination of diverse nifH and nifH-like DNA into commercial PCR primers

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 246, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 33-38

  Goto, Masahiro ^a   Ando, Shotaro ^b   Hachisuka, Yusuke ^a   Yoneyama, Tadakatsu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LIVESTOCK AND GRASSLAND SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Contamination; nifH; PCR; Primer

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA;

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CONTAMINATION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 18144395810     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsle.2005.03.042     Document Type: Article

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