Comparative in silico analysis of PCR primers suited for diagnostics and cloning of ammonia monooxygenase genes from ammonia-oxidizing bacteria

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 141-152

  Junier, Pilar ^a,b   Kim, Ok Sun ^b   Molina, Verónica ^b   Limburg, Petra ^b   Junier, Thomas ^c   Imhoff, Johannes F ^d   Witzel, Karl Paul ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^d GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ammonia oxidizing bacteria; amoA; amoB; amoC; PCR primers

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE;

AMMONIA; BACTERIUM; CLONE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AMOA GENE; AMOB GENE; AMOC GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER MODEL; DATA BASE; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC CODE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

AMMONIA; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; OPERON; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; NITROSOMONADALES;

EID: 40549136540     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2007.00437.x     Document Type: Article

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