GeneFISH - an in situ technique for linking gene presence and cell identity in environmental microorganisms

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3057-3073

  Moraru, Cristina ^a   Lam, Phyllis ^a   Fuchs, Bernhard M ^a   Kuypers, Marcel M M ^a   Amann, Rudolf ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA MONOOXYGENASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; POLYNUCLEOTIDE; RNA 16S; SEA WATER;

AFRICA; AQUATIC SPECIES; ARCHAEAL GENE; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CRENARCHAEOTA; DNA DENATURATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AFRICA, SOUTHERN; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BASE SEQUENCE; CRENARCHAEOTA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, ARCHAEAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYNUCLEOTIDES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CRENARCHAEOTA;

EID: 78249268816     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02281.x     Document Type: Article

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