Specific primers for the detection of freshwater alphaproteobacterial magnetotactic cocci

International Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 237-242

  Lin, Wei ^a,b   Pan, Yongxin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

16S rRNA gene; Freshwater alphaproteobacterial magnetotactic cocci; Magnetotactic bacteria; Specific primers

Indexed keywords

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; MAGNETOCOCCUS;

EID: 77449103268     PISSN: 11396709     EISSN: 16181905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2436/20.1501.01.103     Document Type: Article

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