Development and evaluation of specific 16S rDNA primers for marine Cytophaga-Flavobacteria cluster

Molecular Ecology Notes

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1278-1281

  Chen, Xihan ^a   Zeng, Yonghui ^a   Jiao, Nianzhi ^a  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

16S rDNA; Clone library; Cytophaga Flavobacteria; Diversity; Marine environments; Primer design

Indexed keywords

CYTOPHAGA; FLAVOBACTERIA;

EID: 33751333479     PISSN: 14718278     EISSN: 14718286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-8286.2006.01514.x     Document Type: Article

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