Significance test for comparing complex microbial community fingerprints using pairwise similarity measures

Journal of Microbiological Methods

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 187-195

  Kropf, Siegfried ^a   Heuer, Holger ^b,c   Grüning, Martin ^a   Smalla, Kornelia ^b  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Block design; Electrophoretic fingerprints; Pairwise distance measures; Permutation test

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; BIOMETRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ELECTROPHORESIS; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCE BASED AMPLIFICATION; POTATO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPESEED; RNA FINGERPRINTING; STRAWBERRY;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 1842457702     PISSN: 01677012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2004.01.002     Document Type: Article

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