Detection and quantification of Entomophaga maimaiga resting spores in forest soil using real-time PCR

Mycological Research

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 324-331

  Castrillo, Louela A ^a   Thomsen, Lene ^a   Juneja, Punita ^a   Hajek, Ann E ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Azygospores; DNA extraction; Entomophthoraceae; Entomophthorales; Forest soil; Zygomycetes; Zygomycota

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL RNA; PRIMER DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

DETECTION METHOD; DNA; EXTRACTION METHOD; FOREST SOIL; FUNGUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME; SPORE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; ENTOMOPHTHORALES; FUNGUS SPORE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TREE; UNITED STATES;

COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; ENTOMOPHTHORALES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, FUNGAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPORES, FUNGAL; TREES; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOVINAE; ENTOMOPHAGA MAIMAIGA; ENTOMOPHTHORACEAE; ENTOMOPHTHORALES; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; LYMANTRIA; ZYGOMYCETES; ZYGOMYCOTA;

EID: 33947714467     PISSN: 09537562     EISSN: 14698102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mycres.2007.01.010     Document Type: Article

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