Development of a new PCR primer system for selective amplification of Actinobacteria

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 311, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 103-112

  Schäfer, Jenny ^a,b   Jäckel, Udo ^b   Kämpfer, Peter ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Actinobacteria; cloning analyses; primer system; SSCP

Indexed keywords

PRIMER RNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ACTINOBACTERIA; AEROSOL; ARTICLE; BUILDING MATERIAL; COMPOST; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA GENE;

ACTINOBACTERIA; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

ACTINOBACTERIA; MYCOBACTERIUM; NOCARDIA; SACCHAROPOLYSPORA;

EID: 77957302421     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2010.02069.x     Document Type: Article

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