New threshold and confidence estimates for terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of complex bacterial communities

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 1270-1278

  Osborne, Catherine A ^a   Rees, Gavin N ^b   Bernstein, Yaniv ^c   Janssen, Peter H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MURRAY DARLING FRESHWATER RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^c RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; ENZYME KINETICS; RNA; SEDIMENTS;

BACTERIAL COMMUNITIES; RESTRICTION ENZYME (RE); TERMINAL RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM (T-RFLP);

BACTERIOLOGY;

RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; THRESHOLD;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CALCULATION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RNA GENE; SEDIMENT; SOIL; STANDARDIZATION; TERMINAL RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33144466522     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.72.2.1270-1278.2006     Document Type: Article

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