Application of the denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) technique as an efficient diagnostic tool for ciliate communities in soil

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1221-1225

  Jousset, Alexandre ^a   Lara, Enrique ^b   Nikolausz, Marcell ^c   Harms, Hauke ^c   Chatzinotas, Antonis ^a,c  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

18S rRNA; Ciliates; DGGE; Monitoring; PAH; Pollution; Soil

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKERS; DIAGNOSTIC PRODUCTS; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENES; MONITORING; POLLUTION; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; RNA; SOIL POLLUTION; SOILS;

18S RRNA; AMPLIFICATION PRODUCTS; CILIATES; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESES (DGGE); DGGE; FINGERPRINT METHOD; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON (PAH); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

SOIL SURVEYS;

POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; RNA 18S;

BIOINDICATOR; BIOMONITORING; CILIATE; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ELECTROKINESIS; GEL; PAH; PHYLOGENETICS; POLLUTION EFFECT; RNA; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MARKER GENE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLLUTION MONITORING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROTISTAN COMMUNITY; RNA FINGERPRINTING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL MICROFLORA; SOIL POLLUTION;

CILIOPHORA; COLPODEA;

EID: 73349086199     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.09.056     Document Type: Article

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