Fecal bacterial diversity in a wild gorilla

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 3788-3792

  Frey, Julie C ^a   Rothman, Jessica M ^a   Pell, Alice N ^a   Nizeyi, John Bosco ^b,c   Cranfield, Michael R ^b,d   Angert, Esther R ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b Maryland Zoo in Baltimore   (United States)

^c MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONE LIBRARY; FECAL BACTERIAL DIVERSITY; FECAL POPULATIONS; WILD GORILLA;

BIODIVERSITY; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; MICROBIOLOGY; RNA;

BACTERIA;

RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S;

CLONE; FECAL COLIFORM; GENE; MAMMAL; POLYMORPHISM; RNA;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDETES; FECES CULTURE; FIRMICUTES; GORILLA; LENTISPHAERAE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANCTOMYCETE; POPULATION RESEARCH; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RNA GENE; SPIROCHETE; TERMINAL RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VERRUCOMICROBIA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FECES; GENE LIBRARY; GORILLA GORILLA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; FIRMICUTES; LENTISPHAERAE; PLANCTOMYCETES; VERRUCOMICROBIA;

EID: 33646537767     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.72.5.3788-3792.2006     Document Type: Article

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