Cross-kingdom amplification using Bacteria-specific primers: Complications for studies of coral microbial ecology

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 7828-7831

  Galkiewicz, Julia P ^a   Kellogg, Christina A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOLOGY; GENES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; ORGANIC ACIDS;

BACTERIAL INTERACTIONS; MICROBIAL ECOLOGIES; PCR AMPLIFICATIONS; PRIMER SETS; RRNA GENES; SPECIFIC PRIMERS;

AMPLIFICATION;

BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

CORAL; EUKARYOTE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CORAL; ECOLOGY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANTHOZOA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 57449115141     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01303-08     Document Type: Article

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