Detection and quantification of Dehalogenimonas and " Dehalococcoides" populations via PCR-based protocols targeting 16S rRNA genes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 7560-7564

  Yan, Jun ^a   Rash, Brian A ^a   Rainey, Fred A ^a   Moe, William M ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE; 16S RRNA GENE SEQUENCE; DEHALOCOCCOIDES; LOUISIANA; SPECIFIC PRIMERS; SUPERFUND SITES;

FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; RNA;

GENES;

GROUND WATER; PRIMER RNA; RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; DECHLORINATION; DETECTION METHOD; GENE EXPRESSION; GROUNDWATER; HOMOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; SUPERFUND;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; DEHALOCOCCOIDES; DEHALOGENIMONAS; GENE TARGETING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TARGET ORGANISM; UNITED STATES; WATER CONTAMINATION;

CHLOROFLEXI; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA PRIMERS; LOUISIANA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

LOUISIANA; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DEHALOCOCCOIDES;

EID: 72949111410     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01938-09     Document Type: Article

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