Analysis of the unexplored features of rrs (16S rDNA) of the Genus Clostridium

BMC Genomics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Kalia, Vipin C ^a   Mukherjee, Tanmoy ^a   Bhushan, Ashish ^a   Joshi, Jayadev ^a   Shankar, Pratap ^a   Huma, Nusrat ^a  

^a CSIR INSTITUTE OF GENOMICS AND INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA 16S; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLOSTRIDIUM; COMPUTER MODEL; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RRS GENE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM SP.;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CLOSTRIDIUM; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 78651088845     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-18     Document Type: Article

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