Rapid differentiation of phenotypically similar yeast species by single-strand conformation polymorphism analysis of ribosomal DNA

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2604-2611

  Wang, Qi Ming ^a   Li, Juan ^a,b   Wang, Shi An ^a,b   Bai, Feng Yan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONFORMATIONS; DNA SEQUENCES; FRAGRANCES; POLYMORPHISM;

ASCOMYCETES; BASIDIOMYCETES; YEAST STRAINS;

YEAST;

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 2; RIBOSOME DNA;

DNA; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; YEAST;

ARTICLE; BASIDIOMYCETES; BULLERA ORYZAE; BULLERA PSEUDOSCHIMICOLA; BULLERA SINENSIS; BULLERA VARIABILIS; BULLEROMYCES ALBUS; CANDIDA; DIOSZEGIA ZSOLTII; DNA SEQUENCE; ITERSONILIA PERPLEXANS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SACCHAROMYCES; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; YEAST;

ASCOMYCOTA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; MYCOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; YEASTS;

ASCOMYCOTA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; CANDIDA; SACCHAROMYCES;

EID: 43049129605     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02223-07     Document Type: Article

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