Can denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) analysis of amplified 16s rDNA of soil bacterial populations be used in forensic investigations?

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1188-1192

  Lerner, Anat ^a   Shor, Yaron ^b   Vinokurov, Asya ^b   Okon, Yaacov ^a   Jurkevitch, Edouard ^a  

^a The Otto Warburg Minerva Center for Agricultural Biotechnology   (Israel)

^b Israel Police   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; DGGE; DNA extraction; Forensic science; PCR

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; DNA; ELECTROPHORESIS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; STANDARDIZATION;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA EXTRACTION; FORENSIC SCIENCE; PCR;

SOILS;

DNA; FORENSIC SCIENCE; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL TYPE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33646482082     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2005.10.006     Document Type: Article

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