Identification of the genus Geobacillus using genus-specific primers, based on the 16S-23S rRNA gene internal transcribed spacer

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 277, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 165-172

  Kuisiene, Nomeda ^a   Raugalas, Juozas ^a   Stuknyte, Milda ^a   Chitavichius, Donaldas ^a  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

16S 23S rRNA gene internal transcribed spacer; Genus specific primer; GEOBAC; Geobacillus

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; ISOLEUCINE; PRIMER RNA; RNA 16S; RNA 23S; TRANSFER RNA;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENUS; GEOBACILLUS; GEOBACILLUS KAUSTOPHILUS; GEOBACILLUS LITUANICUS; GEOBACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM ANALYSIS; BACILLACEAE; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, TRANSFER, ALA; RNA, TRANSFER, ILE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

GEOBACILLUS; GEOBACILLUS KAUSTOPHILUS; GEOBACILLUS LITUANICUS; GEOBACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS;

EID: 36349012345     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.00954.x     Document Type: Article

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