Micro-eukaryotic diversity of the human distal gut microbiota: Qualitative assessment using culture-dependent and -independent analysis of faeces

ISME Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1183-1193

  Scanlan, Pauline D ^a   Marchesi, Julian R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BLASTOCYSTIS; CLASSIFICATION; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; EVALUATION; FECES; FEMALE; FUNGUS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BLASTOCYSTIS; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; FECES; FEMALE; FUNGI; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; YOUNG ADULT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BLASTOCYSTIS; CANDIDA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; GALACTOMYCES; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 57349131283     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2008.76     Document Type: Article

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