Reverse taxonomy: An approach towards determining the diversity of meiobenthic organisms based on ribosomal RNA signature sequences

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 360, Issue 1462, 2005, Pages 1917-1924

  Markmann, Melanie ^a,c   Tautz, Diethard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c GENEDATA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Benthos fauna; DNA taxonomy; Fresh water lakes; Large subunit D3 D5

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANALYTICAL METHOD; BENTHOS; CLONE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATABASE; DNA; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; MORPHOLOGY; NEMATODE; PHYLOGENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN; RNA; SEDIMENT BUDGET; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

CHIRONOMIDAE; NEMATODA; PROTOZOA;

DNA; FRESH WATER; PRIMER DNA; RNA 28S;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GERMANY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INVERTEBRATE; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTOZOON; SEDIMENT;

ANIMALS; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; BASE SEQUENCE; BIODIVERSITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GERMANY; INVERTEBRATES; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTOZOA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 28S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 29144517946     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2005.1723     Document Type: Article

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