Sequencing and analysis of fungal rRNA operons for development of broad-range fungal PCR assays

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1559-1565

  Knot, Prasanna D ^a   Ko, Daisy L ^a   Fredricks, David N ^a,b  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

18S RRNA; AMPLICONS; DISTANCE MATRICES; FUNGAL DNAS; FUNGAL GENERA; FUNGAL PATHOGENS; GENOMIC DATABASE; GENOMIC DNAS; HUMAN TISSUES; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACERS; PCR ASSAYS; PCR PRIMERS; PHYLOGENETIC INFORMATIONS; PUBLIC DATABASE; RRNA GENES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGIES; SIZE RANGES; SPECIES IDENTIFICATIONS;

COSMIC RAYS; DNA; FUNGI; NUCLEIC ACIDS; TRANSCRIPTION;

GENES;

BIOASSAY; DATABASE; DNA; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMINID; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; PHYLOGENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA;

ANIMALS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FUNGI; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 28S; RRNA OPERON; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

FUNGI;

EID: 62149085916     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02383-08     Document Type: Article

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