Identifying the dominant soil bacterial taxa in libraries of 16S rRNA and 16S rRNA genes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1719-1728

  Janssen, Peter H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; PRIMER DNA; RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM;

ACTINOMADURA; ALCALIGENES; ALGORITHM; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTHROBACTER; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CLOSTRIDIA; CLOSTRIDIUM; CULTURE MEDIUM; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; FLAVOBACTERIA; FLAVOBACTERIUM; FLEXIBACTER; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE LIBRARY; MICROMONOSPORA; MOLECULAR ECOLOGY; NOCARDIA; NONHUMAN; PAENIBACILLUS; PHYLOGENY; PHYLUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOMONAS; RALSTONIA; RHIZOBIUM; RHODOCOCCUS; RNA GENE; SHORT SURVEY; SOIL BACTERIUM; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SPHINGOBACTERIA; STREPTOMYCES; TAXON;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, RRNA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

ACTINOMADURA; ALCALIGENES; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTHROBACTER; BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CLOSTRIDIA; CLOSTRIDIUM; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; FLAVOBACTERIA; FLAVOBACTERIUM; FLEXIBACTER; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; MICROMONOSPORA; NOCARDIA; PAENIBACILLUS; PSEUDOMONAS; RALSTONIA; RHIZOBIUM; RHODOCOCCUS; SPHINGOBACTERIA; STREPTOMYCES;

EID: 33644952722     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.72.3.1719-1728.2006     Document Type: Short Survey

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