New screening software shows that most recent large 16S rRNA gene clone libraries contain chimeras

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 5734-5741

  Ashelford, Kevin E ^a   Chuzhanova, Nadia A ^b   Fry, John C ^a   Jones, Antonia J ^c   Weightman, Andrew J ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIODIVERSITY; CLONING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; RNA;

CHIMERAS; PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS; RRNA GENE CLONE LIBRARIES; SCREENING SOFTWARE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

RNA 16S;

ARTIFACT; CHIMERA; CLONE; GENE; GRAPHICAL METHOD; PHYLOGENETICS; RNA; SOFTWARE;

ARTICLE; CHIMERA; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SCREENING; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; CHIMERA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENE LIBRARY; MARINE BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOFTWARE;

ANAS PLATYRHYNCHOS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33748799671     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00556-06     Document Type: Article

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