Detection of soil fungal communities in an alpine primary successional habitat: Does pooling of DNA extracts affect investigations?

Annals of Microbiology

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 585-595

  Oberkofler, Irmgard ^a   Peintner, Ursula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Clone libraries; dsDNA; Fungi; Glacier forefront

Indexed keywords

FUNGI;

EID: 58149486224     PISSN: 15904261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03175562     Document Type: Article

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