Presence of linA-Homologous DNA Sequences in Different Types of Soil and Their Sequence Diversity

Microbes and Environments

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 399-404

  Kuramochi, Noriko ^a   Otsuka, Shigeto ^a   Nishiyama, Masaya ^a,b   Senoo, Keishi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

linA; PCR; soil DNA; Sphingobium japonicum; HCH

Indexed keywords

EID: 58549109851     PISSN: 13426311     EISSN: 13474405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.22.399     Document Type: Article

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