Pooled samples bias fungal community descriptions

Molecular Ecology Resources

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 135-141

  Avis, P G ^a,b   Branco, S ^b,c,d   Tang, Y ^b,e   Mueller, G M ^b,c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY NORTHWEST   (United States)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE BRAGANÇA   (Portugal)

^e Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

Author keywords

ARISA; Clone sequence; Environmental sample; Fungi; Pooled samples; T RFLP

Indexed keywords

FUNGI;

EID: 73349087809     PISSN: 1755098X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2009.02743.x     Document Type: Article

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