Quantitative and qualitative extraction of RNA from a filamentous cyanobacterium Anabaena variabilis PCC 7937

Journal of Applied Phycology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 113-116

  Singh, Shailendra P ^a   Sinha, Rajeshwar P ^b   Daiker, Viktor ^a   Häder, Donat P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Agarose gel electrophoresis; Cyanobacteria; Reverse transcription PCR; RNA extraction; Spectrophotometry

Indexed keywords

ANABAENA VARIABILIS; CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 77349089524     PISSN: 09218971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10811-009-9428-7     Document Type: Article

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