Development and experimental validation of a nifH oligonucleotide microarray to study diazotrophic communities in a glacier forefield

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2179-2189

  Duc, Laurence ^a   Neuenschwander, Stefan ^b   Rehrauer, Hubert ^b   Wagner, Ulrich ^b   Sobek, Jens ^b   Schlapbach, Ralph ^b   Zeyer, Josef ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGENASE REDUCTASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA MICROARRAY; GENETICS; ICE COVER; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; NITROGEN FIXATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; SOIL; VALIDATION STUDY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ICE COVER; NITROGEN FIXATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; OXIDOREDUCTASES; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 68249085373     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2009.01945.x     Document Type: Article

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