Feasibility of assessing the community composition of prasinophytes at the Helgoland roads sampling site with a DNA microarray

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 5305-5316

  Gescher, Christine ^a,d   Metfies, Katja ^b   Frickenhaus, Stephan ^a   Knefelkamp, Britta ^a   Wiltshire, Karen H ^a   Medlin, Linda K ^c  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c THE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHIPS; DNA; GENES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; ORGANIC ACIDS; PLANTS (BOTANY); TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; MICRO ARRAYS; RELIABLE DETECTION;

BIOASSAY;

RNA 18S;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLASSIFICATION; COLD WATER; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GREEN ALGA; HYBRIDIZATION; PICOPLANKTON;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CLADISTICS; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GREEN ALGA; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOLECULAR PROBE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SPECIES COMPOSITION;

ALGAE, GREEN; DNA PROBES; DNA, ALGAL; NORTH SEA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOPLANKTON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGAE; CHLOROPHYTA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); PRASINOPHYCEAE;

EID: 50949112431     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01271-08     Document Type: Article

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