Cultivation-independent analysis reveals a shift in ciliate 18S rRNA gene diversity in a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon-polluted soil

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 365-373

  Lara, Enrique ^a   Berney, Cédric ^b   Harms, Hauke ^c   Chatzinotas, Antonis ^c  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

18S rRNA genes; Ciliates; Microbial eukaryotes; PAH; Soil protists

Indexed keywords

POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

CILIATE; CLONE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTIVATION; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GENE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PAH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL POLLUTION; TAXONOMY;

ARTICLE; CILIATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA RESTRICTION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPTORIA; NASSOPHOREA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PENICULIDA; PHYLLOPHARYNGIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCUTICOCILIATIA; SOIL POLLUTION;

ANIMALS; CILIOPHORA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, RRNA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

CILIOPHORA; COLPODEA; EUKARYOTA; HAPTORIA; NASSOPHOREA; PENICULIDA; PHYLLOPHARYNGIA; PROTISTA; SCUTICOCILIATIA;

EID: 35948999735     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2007.00387.x     Document Type: Article

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