A Taxon-specific Oligonucleotide Primer Set for PCR-based Detection of Soil Ciliate

Microbes and Environments

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 78-81

  Puitika, Tunjung ^a   Kasahara, Yasuhiro ^a,b   Miyoshi, Norikazu ^c   Sato, Yoshinori ^a   Shimano, Satoshi ^c,d  

^a IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR TOHOKU REGION   (Japan)

^d MIYAGI UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

18S rRNA gene; ciliate; PCR

Indexed keywords

EID: 43049102906     PISSN: 13426311     EISSN: 13474405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.22.78     Document Type: Article

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