Reliability for detecting composition and changes of microbial communities by T-RFLP genetic profiling

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 249-260

  Hartmann, Martin ^a,b   Widmer, Franco ^a  

^a AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Artificial community; Bias; Community structure; Diversity; Genetic profiling; T RFLP

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ELECTROKINESIS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ARTICLE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE SEQUENCE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; ELECTROPHORESIS, CAPILLARY; GENES, RRNA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 38049134986     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2007.00427.x     Document Type: Article

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