Composition of estuarine bacterial communities assessed by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis and fluorescence in situ hybridization

Limnology and Oceanography: Methods

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 303-314

  Castle, Dawn ^a   Kirchman, David L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CYTOPHAGA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 23744498387     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15415856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lom.2004.2.303     Document Type: Article

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